Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose
How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Explores how postmodern ideas evolved into contemporary activist scholarship—such as queer theory, critical race theory, and intersectionality—emphasizing power, language, and identity. It argues these approaches often replace open inquiry with moral certainty and recast knowledge as political, undermining liberal principles of reason, universalism, and free speech. It concludes by advocating a liberal humanist framework as a more constructive route to social justice.
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- Published
- 2020
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 350-360
- Original Language
- English
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