Brilliant

Great, enlightening, clarifying, necessary, wise, accurate, realistic, elegant, clear, precise, nevessary, recommendable, nice, good, interesting

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Fantastic Exposition, makes one think

This book has exceeded my expectations. It explains the fruits of postmodernism by painting a picture of a tree starting from the roots and ending at the youngest branches. it's exciting to see how something we can relate to today is linked to enlightenment thinkers like Rousseau and Kant. Although the author describes them as revolutionist rather than enlightenment thinkers. I recommend it to anyone interested in understanding the current cultural climate.

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interesting and relevant

this is an interesting insight into the phenomenon of post modernism. the author puts forward a lucid and powerful argument against its pernicious ramifications and the 'real world' implications of it's implementation through woke ideology.

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Time to slay a dragon?

Exceptional book tracing how Western culture scored its philosophical own goal.
If you are confounded by all things "woke" then read this book to understand from which soil it sprung.

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Absolutely brilliant from beginning to end

Uncovering the mess we are in with the rise of Critical Theory is well laid out in this book. It is a must read for anyone interested in the movements in the modern western world.

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An intellectual tour de force.

An intellectual tour de force. Essential for anyone wanting to understand the origins of postmodernism and how we got where we are.

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Postmodernism according di Ayn Rand

This book should more honestly be titled: 'Postmodernism according to Ayn Rand'. I should have paid attention to the publisher, Atlas, as in 'Atlas shrugged'.

The book is an account, for the simple minded militant, of how Postmodernism can be understood from the vantage point of the Russian-American writer, whose ideas are to philosophy what Flat Earth 'Theory' is to Physics. You'll find very little Postmodernism and a lot of Randian Objectivism. You might however enjoy an hilarious last chapter with a wholesale condemnation of modern art! Truly beyond satire.

Basically it's a prank: stay clear.

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Mind-Garbage

Hicks makes Jordan Peterson look like a credible scholar. the book engages and quotes a wealth of philosophers in an interesting way, but ultimately twists and manipulates every idea bit by bit in its attempt to weave a far-right seduction. Dear me... The value of the book is in revealing what a warped world the conservative ideologues inhabit. At best, I can say, read the book if you want to know the enemy. The image of philosophy that remains at the end is but a grotesque caricature of the real thing...

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Read the reviews before you purchase...

Apparently you should never judge a book by it's cover, though you'd think the title might be a hint. This claimed to be an exposition of post-modernism, and the list of names of post-modernism thinkers on the cover would support this. However, if I had read some of the reviews I might not have bought this. It was like turning on the BBC and being switched to Fox. I knew nothing about Mr. (Dr.?) Hicks before I bought it but his right wing views shine through. His treatment of the left is entirely straw man. Hey, this book made ME feel smart.

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