Vincent Tijms reviewed Cynical Theories by Lindsay, James
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hardcover, 352 pages
Published Aug. 25, 2020 by Pitchstone Publishing.
Cynical Theories
How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody
5 stars
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Sergeant Cat reviewed Cynical Theories by Lindsay, James
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5 stars
This is the best book I've read that tackles the issues related to postmodernism and social justice activist politics, and it clearly expresses a lot of ideas that I've had myself but didn't take the time to really research or fully articulate.
This should be required reading to graduate college. When I was in college, a lot of the courses I took relied heavily on postmodernism, identity politics, and social justice ideology, but I didn't realize it because I didn't have a name for it. Also, it was taught as fact and reality rather than just as a theory, or as the authors would say, as Theory, and it was part of everything from classes on sociology to government to history. At some point, I realized that things weren't quite right, but you have to go along with what the professor is advocating if you want to be assured of …
This is the best book I've read that tackles the issues related to postmodernism and social justice activist politics, and it clearly expresses a lot of ideas that I've had myself but didn't take the time to really research or fully articulate.
This should be required reading to graduate college. When I was in college, a lot of the courses I took relied heavily on postmodernism, identity politics, and social justice ideology, but I didn't realize it because I didn't have a name for it. Also, it was taught as fact and reality rather than just as a theory, or as the authors would say, as Theory, and it was part of everything from classes on sociology to government to history. At some point, I realized that things weren't quite right, but you have to go along with what the professor is advocating if you want to be assured of getting a passing grade.