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Article: Experiments Against Reality: the Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age. (Books: the politics of leftist reality).
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- Partisan Review
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- January 1, 2002
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EXPERIMENTS AGAINST REALITY: THE FATE OF CULTURE IN THE POSTMODERN AGE. By Roger Kimball. Ivan R. Dee. $28.50.
HUMANITIES PROFESSORS HATE ROGER KIMBALL, and why shouldn't they? Ever since the publication of Tenured Radicals ten years ago, Kimball has derided the boorish moralism and pretentious radicalism of multiculturalists, feminists, cultural-studies theorists, deconstructionists, and Marxists, as well as museum curators, educators, and a host of professional diversity-mongers. In his monthly bully pulpit in The New Criterion, from which the materials of Experiments Against Reality are taken, Kimball sets their sentiments--for the Other, for race and gender ...