The Psychoanalytic Critique of Cynical Theories (Part Three)
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One of the most problematic things about Pluckrose and Lindsay’s Cynical Theories is that their book is full of superficial generalizations of French theorists’ works, and yet they still want to claim that they are providing close readings based on clear evidence: “we will make a case that we should counter these ideas through a clearly articulated mass commitment to the universally liberal principles and rigorous, evidence-based scholarship that define modernity” (19).
The Psychoanalytic Critique of Cynical Theories (Part Three)
The Psychoanalytic Critique of Cynical…
The Psychoanalytic Critique of Cynical Theories (Part Three)
One of the most problematic things about Pluckrose and Lindsay’s Cynical Theories is that their book is full of superficial generalizations of French theorists’ works, and yet they still want to claim that they are providing close readings based on clear evidence: “we will make a case that we should counter these ideas through a clearly articulated mass commitment to the universally liberal principles and rigorous, evidence-based scholarship that define modernity” (19).