I read the article. It was very helpful. It did not, however, discuss how critical race "theory," intersectionality, and all the other "theories" that animate SJWs are linked to the critical theory of Marcuse and the Frankfurt school. I hope you go over this in your book, too.
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Not really, I'm afraid. I start with the French postmodernists and only briefly talk about their influences. People talking about critical theory in the context of postmodernism are usually talking about critical race theory, postcolonialism, intersectionality etc.
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So you don't see a link to the Frankfurt school? Because from the little of those writings I have read, I definitely see on there. It seems like the ideas animating the SJWs are a fusion of postmodernism with the Frankfurt school.
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Why not write something showing this?
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I'm a financial economist, not a social critic. I would have to spend a year or more reading the foundational texts, which I find to be an immense bore, before I could draw the link with any degree of rigor. That's why I'm hoping someone like you would do it.
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Steven Hicks has done this in Explaining Postmodernism. I don't intend to look at precursors and influences very much and I'm unconvinced that much of what has survived is linked in any meaningful way to Marxism.
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FWIW, I see the Frankfurt school link in the obsession with oppressor/oppressed, the imperative to overthrow the oppressive order at all costs, and the idea that oppressors are structuring the culture and institutions to keep down the oppressed.
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I don't find this analysis very useful. It long predates the Frankfurt School. It's integral to the development of liberalism which saw the end of feudalism, theocracy, slavery, patriarchy, colonialism, apartheid etc. What matters is whether the accusation is true.
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If you're both sides person, why aren't you discussing what's really happening in secondary education? Conservative doners are participating in the hiring and firing of professors. This is so much more dangerous, and more real, then the liberal attack on campus Free Speech.
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I wonder if someone has done network modeling or similar to see where the various flavors of humanities scholar stand in relation to one another.
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