Sidky’s Postmodern Purge: Right on Anthropology, Wrong on Balance — Minding The Campus

Sidky’s Postmodern Purge: Right on Anthropology, Wrong on Balance — Minding The Campus

Science and Anthropology in a Post-Truth World is a book about the recent anthropological origins of the celebration of unreason that permeates academia and much of the world we now live in, especially in the U.S.. The book logically falls into three parts. The first and most lengthy part of the book is devoted to […] The post Sidky’s Postmodern Purge: Right on Anthropology, Wrong on Balance appeared first on Minding The Campus.

Sidky’s Postmodern Purge: Right on Anthropology, Wrong on Balance

By Geoffrey Clarfield Science and Anthropology in a Post-Truth World is a book about the recent anthropological origins of the celebration of unreason that permeates academia and much of the world we now live in, especially in the U.S.. The book logically falls into three parts. The first and most lengthy part of the book is devoted to the influence that postmodern European writers and theorists have had on social science in the U.S. They have d…