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Post-modernity has generated a huge number of responses, many of them critical. As the main thrust of this book has made clear, this is a mistake.
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Steven Pinker’s vanilla liberalism is representative here. See Steven Pinker. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (London, UK: Penguin Books, 2019).
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See Stephen Hicks. Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. (China: Ockham’s Razor, 2004) and (if you dare) Gad Saad. The Parasitic Mind: How Infections Ideas are Killing Common Sense (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2020).
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See his lengthy denunciations of the philosophes, who are often singled out as the primary catalysts of the French Revolution in, Edmund Burke. Reflections on the Revolution in France (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2009).
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For a more sophisticated, but still deeply flawed, take in the same vein see Jordan Peterson. Beyond Order: Twelve More Rules for Life (Toronto, ON: Random House Canada, 2021) Jordan Peterson. 12 Rules to Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Toronto, ON: Random House Canada, 2018).
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Left-communitarian and radical orthodox thinkers Alasdair MacIntyre and John Millbank offer more interesting replies. They’ve tried to couple a restoration of Christian metaphysics with an outlook which takes the materialist critique of capital very seriously; including engaging in some exemplary dialogues which have borne rich theoretical fruit. See Zizek, Slavoj and Milbank, John. The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? (Boston, MA: MIT Press, 2011).
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Wendy Brown. In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2019).
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Leo Strauss. The City and Man (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1978) at pg 78.
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See Ted. V McAllister. Revolt Against Modernity: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Search for a Postliberal Order (Lawrence, KA: University of Kansas Press, 1995) at pg 268.
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This can even find expression in marginalized communities. See the sections on “Black conservatism” in Cornel West. Race Matters: 25th Anniversary. (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2017).
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Wendy Brown. Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (Brooklyn, NY: Zone Books, 2010).
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McManus, M. (2022). Conclusion. In: The Emergence of Post-modernity at the Intersection of Liberalism, Capitalism, and Secularism. Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98970-5_7
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