Word: postmodernism
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...lines of argument as Allan Bloom, Himmelfarb confronts this pestilence with the tools of reason and moral virtue that Moderns and Ancients (a term which applies to any one who seeks the truth--rather than truths) share in their joint struggle to beat back the dangerous aspects of the postmodern herd...
...Looking in the Abyss is a trenchant analysis of the postmodern condition and its threat to liberalism and the liberal imagination. The subtitle of Himmelfarb's short book is 'Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society," and she means it. By arguing for the restoration of partial truths and solid standards, Himmelfarb's book is a Modern's response to the postmodern condition. Since Himmelfarb is now a professor emeritus and a historian of nineteenth-century England, one might be tempted to discount her description of the current impoverished state of the humanities. This would be a grave mistake...
...review in an NYU newspaper] called it the first post postmodern film, and to me it's like really great that young people can relate to this film and identify with it. I've gotten a fair amount of criticism for it being kind of tipped toward middle-middle aged people, but, also, there's people in it that one would not consider young but are. Madame X, for example, is only 20 years...
...absurd and obtuse it must seem, then, to look at books entitled "There's no such thing as free speech, and it's a good thing too!" Stanley Fish, the author of this book (published by Oxford!), and his fellow-travellers along the postmodern abyss do not really mean what they say, do they...
Despite the sound and fury of thorough-going academic postmodern multi-culties, they, and not liberal values, are the ones who signify nothing. Because of today, February has joined Eliot's April in its iniquities against the human soul...