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The Enlightenment is in danger! (from its false friends)

By Mark Bahnisch on August 7, 2008

In the spheres and circles in which Planet Janet moves, it’s “defend the Enlightenment” week. At first, I thought this was just the latest volley in the denialist wars, but now that we know that Ayaan Hirsi Ali is in [...]

Posted in Education, Ethics, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Ayaan Hirsi Ali, cultural studies, Culture Wars, education wars, ethical relativism, gavin kitching, higher education, humanism, jacques derrida, john frow, laughing at the disabled, ludwig wittgenstein, michael noonan, michel foucault, paralysed by postmodernism, political science, postmodernism, scholarly standards, The Enlightenment, The West | 35 Responses

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