Postmodernism

Being and Becoming: A Critique of Post Modernism.
By Floyd F. Centore.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1991

Difficulty:  3 (Academic)

• a historical and philosophical exposition of postmodernism, with a refutation
• probably the best philosphical analysis of postmodernism and its roots, and with the real antidote!

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Postmodernism and Christian Philosophy.
Edited by Roman T. Ciapalo.
Catholic University of America, 1997.

Difficulty: 4 (difficult)

• a collection of insightful essays by Christian philosophers about postmodernism, and the Christian response and dialogue with it

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The Death of Truth : What's Wrong with Multiculturalism, the Rejection of Reason and the New Postmodern Diversity.
Edited by Dennis McCallum.
Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House, 1996.

Difficulty: 2 (popular)

• helpful for practically recognizing and refuting postmodernism in many fields
• unfortunately, the book is philosophically wholly inadequate, mainly in the essays of Jim Leffel, who is confused about epistemology (adopting a fundamentalist view that cannot give any answer to postmodernism), about the definition of "theism" (which he identifies with hypercalvinism) and "modernism" (which he identifies for most of it with traditional Christianity)

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Truth in Religion: the Plurality of Religions and the Unity of Truth: an Essay in the Philosophy of Religion.
By Mortimer. J. Adler
New York: Macmillan, 1990.

Difficulty: 2

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The Future of the European Past.
Edited by Hilton Kramer & Roger Kimball.
Ivan R Dee, 1997.

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Higher Superstition: the Academic Left and its Quarrels with Science.
By Gross, Paul R. and Norman Levitt.
(reprint edition, 1997).
Baltimore, MD: The John Hopkins Univ., 1994.

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• decries the attacks on natural science by postmoderns, feminists, environmentalists, multiculturalists, etc. who are ignorant about the issues but argues only the basis of their socio-political agenda
• shows that these "social scientists" are dishonest and untrustworthy

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A House built on Sand. Exposing Postmodernist Myths about Science.
Edited by Noretta Koertge.
Oxford: Oxford Univ. , 1998.

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• answers the criticism of the social "scientists" and postmoderns who claim that natural science is more a sexist, racist, capitalist, colonialist... endoctrination that it is a study of the natural world.

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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science.
By Alan D. Sokal & Jean Bricmont.
San Francisco: St Martin, 1998.

Difficulty: 2 (popular)

• this book exposes the ignorance and charlatanism of the French postmoderns concerning their criticism of natural science and mathematics
• unfortunately the authors espouse the naive view of "scientism" (they think that knowledge is only what is empirically testable) and are unable to refute postmodernism at the philosophical level
• the book is great fun reading because of its many hilarious citations of postmodern craze...

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