Reprising this recommendation of four books that focus on the postmodern challenge in specific intellectual areas:
* Literature: John Ellis, Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities.
* History: Keith Windschuttle, The Killing of History.
* Science: Noretta Koertge, editor, A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science.
* Law: Daniel Farber and Suzanna Sherry, Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law.
Related: The philosophy and the intellectual history behind postmodernism:
What do you make of non-philosophy?
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Thanks for the recommended reads on the effects of postmodernism.
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I’m about a quarter through Sokal and Bricmont’s ‘Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science’: a devastating critique of postmodern pretensions and intellectual charlatanry. Of course you mention the delightful “Sokal Affair” in ‘Explaining Postmodernism’ which I heartily recommend to anyone reading this.
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