| Description |
247 pages ; 23 cm |
| Audience |
1370L Lexile |
| Note |
"This book is based on Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity--and Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, first published by Pitchstone Publishing in 2020"--Verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-247) |
| Contents |
Postmodernism: A Revolution in Knowledge and Power -- Postmodernism's Applied Turn: Making Oppression Real -- Postcolonial Theory: Deconstructing the West to Save the Other -- Queer Theory: Freedom from the Normal -- Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality: Ending Racism by Seeing it Everywhere -- Feminisms and Gender Studies: Simplification as Sophistication -- Disability and Fat Studies: Support-Group Identity Theory -- Social Justice Scholarship and Thought: The Truth According to Social Justice -- Social Justice in Action: Theory Always Looks Good on Paper -- An Alternative to the Ideology of Social Justice: Liberalism Without Identity Politics. |
| Summary |
"Argues that many popular approaches to questions of social justice are illiberal and offers an alternative vision for social justice based on liberal principles, adapted from the Wall Street Journal bestseller Cynical Theories"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Social justice -- Philosophy.
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Postmodernism.
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Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Pluckrose, Helen, author.
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Lindsay, James, author.
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Pluckrose, Helen.
Cynical theories.
Adaptation of (expression)
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| ISBN |
9781634312233 (hardcover) |
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1634312236 (hardcover) |
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