The Philosophical Roots of Wokeism
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The Radicalized Modern Self
critical theory, I would argue, radicalizes this modern sense of the self. If you don't see this influence in present-day gender theory, you're not paying attention. Derrida deconstructs what he calls the logocentric approach of classical philosophy. Think of Aquinas, the correspondence of mind to reality mediated by language,. It gives us access to the way things are.
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