The Trouble with Theory
The Educational Costs of Postmodernism

Publisher:  Penn State Press
Year Published:  2008
Pages:  224pp   Price:  $29   ISBN:  978-0-271-03452-2
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX9347

Postmodern theory has engaged the hearts and heads of the brightest students because of its apparent political and social radicalism. Yet Kitching writes: "At the heart of postmodernism is very poor, deeply confused, and misbegotten philosophy. As a result even the very best students who fall under its sway produce radically incoherent ideas about language, meaning, truth, and reality."

Subject Headings

• Abstraction
• Absurdity
• Academic Fads & Fashions
• Analysis
• Cultural Studies
• Cultural Theory
• Determinism
• Fetishism
• Identity
• Intellectuals
• Language
• Language Studies
• Philosophy
• Philosophy Studies
• Political Correctness
• Post-Modernism
• Post-Structuralism
• Pseudoradicalism
• Self-Righteousness
• Theory and Analysis