392 Quotes About Theory

[P]ostmodern Theory seeks not to be factually true but to be strategically useful: in order to bring about its own aims, morally virtuous and politically useful by its own definitions.

Those social sciences and humanities scholars who took Theoretical approaches began to form a left-wing moral community, rather than a purely academic one: an intellectual organ more interested in advocating a particular ought than attempting a detached assessment of is - an attitude we usually associate with churches, rather than universities.

[Theoretical humanities], in turn, influence and often hold sway over the social sciences and professional programs like education, law, psychology, and social work, and have been carried by activists and media into the broader culture.

The "individual" in applied postmodernism is something like the sum total of the identity groups to which the person in question simultaneously belongs.

After the applied postmodern turn, postmodernism was no longer a mode of describing society and undermining confidence in long-established models of reality: it now aspired to be a tool of Social Justice.

It used to be considered a failure of teaching or scholarship to work from a particular ideological standpoint. Academics were incentivized...by knowing that other scholars could - and would - point out evidence of bias or motivating reasoning and counter it with evidence and argument. Teachers could consider their attempts at objectivity successful if their students did not know what their political or ideological positions were.

In a counselling context, theory should be held lightly. It is always inadequate in that it reduces complexity to a series of simple statements.

The flayed man as theoretician of detachment...The convulsionary as skeptic...

It isn't wise to base on courage to face the unknown,folly is absurd the only thing that can literary and actually truly stand the unknown which is based on facts truly.