“why is it that that prominent segment of the Left—the same Left that traditionally defended its positions on the modernist grounds of reason, science, fairness for all, and optimism—is now voicing themes of anti-reason, anti-science, all’s-fair-in-love-and-war, and cynicism? ”
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Stephen R.C. Hicks,
Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault