Postmodernism, Liberal Values & How To Make A Proper British Cup Of Tea with Helen Pluckrose - The Shape of Dialogue #40
About this episode
Helen Pluckrose discusses postmodernism, liberal values, and the art of making a proper British cup of tea.
https://www.hpluckrose.com/ Helen Pluckrose is a British liberal humanist writer and social commentator. She is the co-author with James Lindsay of Cynical Theories, Social (In)justice, as well as her own book, The Counterweight Handbook, about Principled Strategies for Surviving and Defeating Critical Social Justice at Work, in Schools, and Beyond. At university, Helen studied late medieval women's religious writing. Her work now focuses on critiques of postmodernist philosophies, Critical Social Justice scholarship and activism and their negative effects on the humanities and the political left. With James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian, Helen was instrumental in the now famous "Grievance Studies Affair" which exposed the dubious scholarship in academic fields captured by Postmodernism, critical theory and identity politics. They succeeded in publishing a number of fake, hoax papers in academic journals. The project was inspired by Alan Sokal's 1996 hoax paper he published in the academic journal, Social Text. From 2018 to 2021, Helen was the editor-in-chief of Areo, an online magazine focusing on politics, culture, science and art. You can read her…
People in this episode
Host: Michael Goldwater
Guest: Helen Pluckrose
Topics covered
- postmodernism
- liberal values
- critical social justice
- academic scholarship
- British culture
- tea preparation
Keywords
- postmodernism
- liberal values
- critical social justice
- British tea
- academic hoaxes
- Helen Pluckrose
- Cynical Theories
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Areo, Cynical Theories, Social (In)justice, The Overflowings of a Liberal Brain, Quillette
Books & works: Bach B Minor Mass
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