Succinct and essential piece on the post-modernism that plagues present day humanities departments, by @HPluckrosehttps://areomagazine.com/2017/03/27/how-french-intellectuals-ruined-the-west-postmodernism-and-its-impact-explained/ …
He's just one of the pioneers of the shift away from valuing science & evidence.
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USA is a proof of how the proper failure of the modernist promises and cientific community...
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ended up creating that gap between the people and 'science'
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Its scientists fault that people are not trusting scientific consensus on vaccines & autism?
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again, is something way more complicated than just postmodernism or scientists fault
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As I say in the piece.
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no, you are just trying to blame a set of thinkers for problems they even denouced
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Go and argue with yourself abt what you think I mean rather than what I said. I don't need to be here.
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well, my fault now?
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so why this kind of idea is way more common at USA then at France?
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Because the ideas caught on more there. If they did. French ppl are disagreeing about this.
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how could it be since american academy is way less found of postmodernism?
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You're just making assertions. American academy is not less fond of pomo. They lead in many areas.
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Having worked in both British & American academe 4 years, can confirm. More pomo in US.
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even in a historical tradition point of view?
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I taught English, not history. I was referring 2 the compulsory courses on the syllabi, etc
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and i was talking about academy through XX century in USA
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