Postmodern concepts – core principles of Critical Theory
The Truth According to Social Justice — A Review of ‘Cynical Theories‘
The book explains a half-century arc of intellectual history culminating in our current state of histrionic overreach in the name of social justice.
by Jonathan Church.
From the opening pages, one gets the sense that Pluckrose and Lindsay have immersed themselves in every noteworthy work of postmodern scholarship available. They begin by identifying two postmodern principles and four postmodern themes.
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The postmodern knowledge principle refers to a “radical skepticism about whether objective knowledge or truth is obtainable and a commitment to cultural constructivism.”
The postmodern political principle is the “belief that society is formed of systems of power and hierarchies, which decide what can be known and how.”
(1) the blurring of conceptual boundaries such as that between health and sickness or truth and belief,
(2) the power of language to construct reality rather than to merely articulate the intent of an author or an objective reality that we can discover,
(3) cultural relativism,
(4) the loss of the individual or a universal human nature in favor of compilations of socially constructed intersectional identities.