The great course is plus. It's an p that you get on your phone and it opens right up to hundreds of different courses, each of which have couple dozen lectures. This particular one, wen one of my favorites,. I listen to iscalled understanding the dark side of human nature. There are a total of 24 lectures. Each of them is about 30 minutes long. We cover not just post modernism, but also, as she does in the book alon That was co authered with james lindsey., post colonial theory, queer theory, critical race theory and intersectionality. And then at the end, they present an alternative to the ideology of social justice. Your
Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn’t practice yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white people can be racist? Are you confused by these ideas, and do you wonder how they have managed so quickly to challenge the very logic of Western society?
In this wide-ranging conversation Helen Pluckrose recounts the evolution of the dogma that informs these ideas, from its coarse origins in French postmodernism to its refinement within activist academic fields. Today this dogma is recognizable as much by its effects, such as cancel culture and social-media dogpiles, as by its tenets, which are all too often embraced as axiomatic in mainstream media: knowledge is a social construct; science and reason are tools of oppression; all human interactions are sites of oppressive power play; and language is dangerous.