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By Mark Bahnisch on September 22, 2008
My colleague Terry Flew takes a look on his blog at the latest controversy over teh evils of postmodernism (and neo-Marxism!) in academia. In regard to The Australian, he writes: In two articles (Sat and Mon) referring to the Culture [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Education, Media, Security, Terrorism, War | Tagged academic freedom, ADFA, ASPI, Carl Ungerer, Culture Wars, David Lovell, gary maclennan, higher education, international relations, James Cook University, john Hookham, Mervyn Bendle, michael noonan, political science, postmodernism, Quadrant, research, research funding, scholarly ethics, security studies, terrorism studies, Terry Flew, Tony Burke, UNSW |
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 |
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