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"leftist" and "anti-intellectual" as used here are just fighting words (just for emotional effect). I wouldn't read too much into them.
by te_platt 15y ago
"leftist" and "anti-intellectual" as used here are just fighting words (just for emotional effect). I wouldn't read too much into them.
- p4bl0 15y agoOkay, thank you and crux_ for your anwsers.
- crux_ 15y agoThat's not completely true; they are fighting words, but they're fighting words re-used from the Culture Wars, which still rage on. (Particularly in academia.)
- Synthetase 15y agoI've never gotten the impression from any of my hard science professors that they take the Culture Wars seriously enough. I would think that camp of though to be utterly discredited after the Sokal affair and the various books that sprang from that happy incident. Perhaps you could enlighten us?
- crux_ 15y agoFor an example of the Culture Wars, just scroll back on the front page to the "Dangerous Mr. Khan" article. As far as the Sokal affair goes, it may or may not have done an excellent job of discrediting people, processes, institutions, writing styles, academic subculture ... but it did and could not touch any ideas. In fact, you could even say that the Sokal hoax was an excellent validation/demonstration of many postmodern ideas, albeit at the expense of the same people teaching and regurgitating them.