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Originally Posted by aussenseiter
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Critical theory is a variant of Post Marxism.
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I was just gonna say. Let's tidy up that problem? Just so maybe there can be some indication this entire subculture is not on crazy pills? So I'm gonna do a list again. Captain Lists. This time, in no particular order:
- There is sometimes a big difference between academic theories and political bullshit.
- Academically, "critical theory" is a broad term for a collection of theoreticalmethods.
- "Critical theory" arguably begins with Kant -- 200+ years ago.
- Critical theory can be applied to anything. Again, it's a method of studying things. Anything "human" can be studied using this method. It requires a "subject."
- In it's modern form critical theory was also called structuralist theory in the US. It's considered old fashioned now. Today, academically, very few structuralists left, and the critical theorists today are eye-wateringly weak shit. Academically. IE: Bad scholars.
- 20th century critical theory, especially in the US, was often a safe place for lots of weak shit, so that's saying something.
If critical race theory is a variant of post Marxism, which it is, it also has to be granted that Marxism is a variant of post Kantianism, which really gets the comedy juices flowing here.
A lot of problems are instantly solved if people understood what the word "structural" means in this theoretical tradition.
The hardcore structuralist is brutal! (rimshot)
Personal view. If the complaint is that outside the sciences the academic disciplines are a fucking trainwreck, well no shit. You know how in war movies, a ship or a submarine has been hit, and the bulkheads are closing, and there is always the last guy who managed to get out before the area turns into an aquarium? That's my education. I just made it. My profs made me suffer -- their intellectual demands, not their politics. And we all agreed likely! But dear god that is trivial bullshit! When I was educated, if you ever displayed you were aware of "the real world" you were shunned.
One can *always* get educated. But you kind of have to already be on the way, so to speak. Maybe just keep in mind, you kids, that I, as an older academic, find it perfectly innocent to mumble under your breath, "This dick should be shot." That would be ideal, but alas, our fate is less than ideal, and justly so, for that makes things challenging.
(Tedious: Without Kant, no formal arguments and statements of Rousseau's much too literary-expressed demand for "human liberty." And without that, you start to get into territory where you wonder what actual history would look like. The American Revolution was not a populist movement. It was an application of Locke, but the heart of our governing ideas are Kantian. "Moral absolutes" = rights + duties, correct? That's Kant not Locke.)
Wall of text. Wall of text. And before you know it, they give you a degree and a job. Lookin good, feelin good.