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Originally it was mostly progressive, but the toolset of postmodernism, particularly the whole "science is just a social construct no better than other social c
by jhbadger 8y ago
Originally it was mostly progressive, but the toolset of postmodernism, particularly the whole "science is just a social construct no better than other social constructs" is also very useful for the right wing when science doesn't support their conclusions either. For instance, the creationists in the 2005 Dover trial brought in Steve Fuller, a postmodern philosopher, to testify on their behalf.
- DataWorker 8y agoSo there’s Foucault, Dellueze, Derrida and a bunch of other icons of the left. Who are the famous far-right authoritarian postmodernist thinkers? I’m drawing a blank.
- jhbadger 8y agoI don't know about "famous" but people like Steve Fuller. Wiliam Dembski and David Berlinski are people with philosophical training who use arguments from postmodernism in order to claim that evolutionary biology is just a social construct and not the only way to understand biology. They are pretty well known to people who follow the attempts of creationists to convince the public that evolutionary biology is somehow in crisis.