Cynical theories : how activist scholarship made everything about race, gender, and identity-and why...
Cynical theories : how activist scholarship made everything about race, gender, and identity-and why...
Cynical theories : how activist scholarship made everything about race, gender, and identity-and why this harms everybody / Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay.
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Durham, North Carolina : Pitchstone Publishing, [2020]
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G 2020/3923
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English
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351 pages ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction -- Postmodernist: 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...
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Durham, North Carolina : Pitchstone Publishing, [2020]
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First edition.
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North Carolina
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[2020]
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Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white people can be racist? Pluckrose and Lindsay document the evolution of the dogma that informs ideas like these, from its coarse origins in French postmodernism to its refinement...
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Cynical theories : how activist scholarship made everything about race, gender, and identity-and why this harms everybody / Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay.
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In title "Cynical" appears above the word "Critical", which is presented with a strickthrough.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2020/3923
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74VKaMJ6BbbM
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1634312023 (hardcover)
9781634312028 (hardcover)
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149.97
MMS ID
991024347717602626
