05-16-2016, 05:36 PM
(05-16-2016, 04:58 PM)radind Wrote:No problem!(05-16-2016, 03:36 PM)Odin Wrote: The issue is that there are no context-free facts, all information is understood ONLY though interpreting them though cultural and ideological lenses. One of the big reasons Postmodernism took off was because of the realization by intellectuals that what is often considered "neutral" or "apolitical" is in most cases just a dominant cultural mindset or ideology being taken as "just the way the world is". Marx famously argued this in terms of political assumptions (an idea later expanded upon by Antonio Gramsci), but it took mid and late 20th century thinkers to logically extend this to other areas. I suspect that the increasing development and growing economic importance of non-Western countries has helped encourage this philosophical shift.Good points. I was not familiar with Antonio Gramsci.
The Marx connection, unfortunately, has become the source of a lot of ridiculous conspiracies about "cultural Marxists" that have become seen as self-evident truth among the Alt-Right folks, who thinks any connection to "evil commies" makes an idea automatically wrong...
Thanks
IMO a good response to people who think science is somehow inherently apolitical and free of ideology is how "race science" nonsense was accepted as valid science for so long. This is why I am so skeptical of "Evolutionary Psychology", because it is more often than not used by right-wing polemicists to justify traditional cultural norms and traditional gender roles as "human nature" in much the same way early 20th Century "race science" was used to justify white supremacy.