I wasted probably thousands of hours in total arguing fruitlessly with creationists. I'm not going to make the same mistake with people who insist postmodern identity/grievance studies critical theory is Marxist Frankfurt School critical theory. Believe what you want.
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Replying to @Philosophy_Net @HPluckrose
It is Marcuse’s ‘discriminating tolerance’ that explains the contemporary far-left’s deplatforming activism. Habermas’ discourse ethics stands in stark contrast and might offer a productive, rational way out of our present impasse.
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Replying to @indynoggin @Philosophy_Net
Show me. Show them citing Marcuse.
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I’ll try:) “The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself.” (Marcuse 1991, 172) But surely Marcuse was not suggestion that Reason as such is a tool of domination, but ‘totalitarian’ selective application of lies looking like reason...
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“For 'totalitarian' is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests." (Marcuse 1991, 5)
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I know this. I have read The Coddling of the American Mind too. I am asking for evidence that current activists and scholars are influenced by him rather than the people they are citing.
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