July 27, 2005

Why I am not a Postmodernist

Dawkins Review of Intellectual Impostures

Suppose you are an intellectual impostor with nothing to say, but with strong ambitions to succeed in academic life, collect a coterie of reverent disciples and have students around the world anoint your pages with respectful yellow highlighter. What kind of literary style would you cultivate? Not a lucid one, surely, for clarity would expose your lack of content.

With this, Richard Dawkins begins a wonderful review of Intellectual Impostures by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. This book reveals Postmodernism for the easy tenure exploit it is.

Posted by bill at July 27, 2005 05:38 PM
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