Manufacturing the Attack on Liberalized Higher Education

Messer-Davidow, Ellen

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“…As Cold War paranoias again intensified, political dissent within academia became subject to increasing conservative scrutiny. 64 Nevertheless, trends towards pluralism continued -albeit pluralism of a somewhat limited kind.…”

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“…Via books such as Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind of 1987, Roger Kimball's Tenured Radicals of 1990, and Dinesh D'Souza's Illiberal Education of 1991, as well as a growing apparatus of well-funded organisations, led by figures such as Paul Weyrich and William S. Lind, conservatives increasingly scapegoated the academy for fomenting a moral turpitude known as 'political correctness.' 101 In a post-Cold War empire searching for new internal enemies, those who openly advocated destabilising received standards of truth and social order provided a perfect target for the 'Culture War.' Sociologists and philosophers, such as Sandra Harding, Bruno Latour, and Gilles Deleuze, were accused of undermining the rational-scientific basis of Western civilisation.…”

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Radicalism, Respectability, and the Colour Line of Critical Thought: An Interdisciplinary History of Critical International Relations

Conway

2021

Millennium: Journal of International Studies

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The epithet ‘critical’ has become both coveted and contested. A long-established lodestone of personal, political, and professional commitment within academia, its meanings are multiple, and its histories are poorly understood. This article reconstructs an interdisciplinary history of debates concerning what it is to ‘be critical’, beginning in the 1930s but focusing on the late 1960s to the late 1990s. It argues the significance of the category ‘critical’ to be that it can connote political radicalism while allowing for a degree of professional respectability. Furthermore, the article shows that claims and counterclaims upon the parameters of criticality have privileged certain thought traditions. In particular, while contemporary discourses of ‘anti-wokeness’ caricature critical academics as being prepossessed with issues of coloniality and race, traditions of thought dealing with these issues have, until recently, been rather marginalised. The enduring ‘colour line’ of critical thought is not only unjust but also deleterious to political imagination.

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Radicalism, Respectability, and the Colour Line of Critical Thought: An Interdisciplinary History of Critical International Relations

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Millennium: Journal of International Studies

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“…At roughly the same time, in 1986, Lynne Cheney became head of the National Endowment for the Humanities (a post she held until 1993). 18 Oh 17 See the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy's Report "Targeting the Academy" (available at www.media transparency.org/targeting_academy.htm), Johnson (2003), andMesser-Davidow (1993). 18 See Nash, Crabtree and Dunn (2000) for an account of Cheney's antics vis-à-vis the National History Standards, and also SourceWatch (Center for Media and Democracy) for a list of articles by and about Cheney: http://www.…”

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Staying Alive: A Survival Manual for the Liberal Arts

2018

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Manufacturing the Attack on Liberalized Higher Education

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Radicalism, Respectability, and the Colour Line of Critical Thought: An Interdisciplinary History of Critical International Relations

Radicalism, Respectability, and the Colour Line of Critical Thought: An Interdisciplinary History of Critical International Relations

Staying Alive: A Survival Manual for the Liberal Arts

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