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1. • • Ryan Whittaker wrote on The Manchester Review that "Despite its flaws, Cynical Theories is an important, interesting, accessible, and extensively cited work of non-fiction.
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   What is cynical theories?

   • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender and Identity – and Why This Harms Everybody (2020) by Helen Pluckrose and James A Lindsay is a thoroughly researched explanation of how various critical identity theories came into being and the problems they cause.

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   Who wrote cynical theories?

   • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody is a nonfiction book by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, published in August 2020. The book was listed on the bestsellers lists of Publishers Weekly, USA Today, and the Calgary Herald.

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   When did cynical theory start?

   • I read this after Sir Roger Scruton's Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left, which traces development of far left political thought in the West during the 20th century. Cynical theories starts where Fools, Frauds and Firebrands ends, by postmodernism's transformation into social justice, CRT and intersectionality.

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   Are cynical theories a contradiction?

   • The fundamental hypocrisy of cynical theories is that they use reason to denigrate and delegitimise reason itself, which is a contradiction. However, cynics like pointing to Hegel as their academic authority to tell us that contradictions are somehow ok.

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   Do cynical theories have to enjoy convoluted and linguistically complex theory?

   • No one is saying the authors of Cynical Theories have to enjoy convoluted and linguistically complex theory. We can all enjoy or not enjoy different and experimental kinds of language, and take what we need from academic texts to help us with our own thinking.

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   Why are cynical theories so vague?

   • Cynical theories tend to be vague to avoid ever being called out on being inadequate or false. Such theories keep adding more and more justifications in light of refutations instead of admitting to being wrong and joining in the communal effort to search for a better understanding of the world and ourselves.

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   May 5, 2020 · While acknowledging the need to challenge the complacency of those who think a just society has been fully achieved, Pluckrose and Lindsay break down how this often-radical activist scholarship does far more harm than good, not least to those marginalized communities it claims to champion.

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   Aug 25, 2020 · "A fascinating and mandatory guide to understanding the culture war. Meticulously researched and impeccably written, Cynical Theories offers explanations as to how we got here and the best solutions going forward." —Debra Soh, PhD, sex neuroscientist and author of The End of Gender

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   Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody is a nonfiction book by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, published in August 2020.

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   Apr 5, 2022 · Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity-and Why This Harms Everybody Paperback – 5 April 2022. by James Lindsay (Author), Helen Pluckrose (Author) 4.7 4,445 ratings. See all formats and editions. Great on Kindle. Great Experience. Great Value.

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   Mar 16, 2021 · Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity‐and Why This Harms Everybody Pitchstone Publishing, 2020. 352 p. $27.95 - RICH - 2021 - Population and Development Review - Wiley Online Library. BOOK REVIEW.

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   Authors Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay critically examine the development of critical theories, such as postmodernism and critical social justice, and their influence on academia and society. They argue that these theories have led to a polarized and divisive intellectual landscape, where ideology often supersedes rational discourse.

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