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The Right Wing Mirror of Critical Theory:
Studies of Schmitt, Oakeshott, Strauss and Rand
by Larry Alan Busk Rowman and Littlefield 2023. 276 pp. hb ISBN 9781666929638
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Reviewed by Matt McManus
For many decades now, anti-foundationalism has been a very popular position on the academic left. Influenced by an array of post-structuralist and post-modern thinkers such as Foucault, Derrida and Gayatri Spivak, many have argued (…)
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