His book, "Cynical Theories", is the best dissection I ever saw of how the excesses of the Left and the Right are currently providing fuel to each other, making both sides able to reach surreal extremes - with Lindsay destroying both in the process.
However, I feel that the fact that this is the most sold book on Amazon in the "Philosophy" section confirms something I really believe in: how most people are interested in understanding the current follies - not in being part of them.
It's a fairly good book. And it's better when it deals with the more recent "Applied Postmodernism" aspect of things.
But just remember that Pluckrose and Lindsay actually understand this theory and have read a lot more of it better than 99% of people who actually believe in woke causes. In other words, if you want to understand where certain terms and ideas originate from it's a good source, if you want to understand why they spread and how they are used it's less so. You really need some kind of sociological explanation.
This review contains a good critique of some of the issues. https://arcdigital.media/postmodernism-unbound-dc576063e78e
Ok, I read all of that "critique," and what I gathered is the following:
A. The grad-student who wrote it is upset that the authors didn't ask and answer the questions he would have asked and answered.
B. His primary grievance is that the authors didn't articulate that the postmodernism of the academics they are attack isn't
real postmodernism, which the grad student apparently supports. So, while acknowledging that the criticisms are accurate, he deflects by suggesting that they do not apply to
his version of postmodernism (a la "True communism has never been tried...").
So, in summary, I would like you to refund the time I wasted reading that pseudo-erudite wall of sophomoric jargon posing as a philosophic critique.
P.S. The idea that anyone would find that pablum persuasive says more about them than it does about Lindsay's book...