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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8710981/
EXCERPTS: Postmodernism rejects the modernist reliance on authority, rationality and objectivity of science and engineering. While the modernist stance rejects religion and tradition, postmodernism questions this rejection, although postmodernism notably only shows a renewed interest in religions and traditions other than western. Postmodernism in science also tends to rely on subjective feelings and the aim to pursue certain a priori defined ideological goals (Inglehart, 1997).
The postmodern view of science is far from synonymous with critical theory, but the two are interrelated because liberalism and Marxism both stress the liberation of individuals from inherited culture (Crick, 1987; Gray, 1986). Critical theory (and ideology) may tentatively be seen as an explicitly stated and rather extreme expression of postmodernism's stress on the importance of self-experience, self-expression, subjectivity and ideological goals in science.
[...] Science and ideology have two different roles. Science should strive for objectivity and high validity. Ideology should be the basis for underpinning personal and social group interests with rational thinking and empirical scientific facts in order to form relevant arguments in politics. The intentional merging of science and ideology into one inseparable entity will lead to soft totalitarianism, i.e. silence culture. This fact is illustrated by totalitarian states but also by the emergence of the postmodern phenomenon of cancel culture at western universities. The notion that critical theory solely enhances research based on individual self-experience is a false pretense, because critical theory is a broad ideological movement with diverse branches in academia. (MORE - details)
RELATED: Decolonization of Science
EXCERPTS: Postmodernism rejects the modernist reliance on authority, rationality and objectivity of science and engineering. While the modernist stance rejects religion and tradition, postmodernism questions this rejection, although postmodernism notably only shows a renewed interest in religions and traditions other than western. Postmodernism in science also tends to rely on subjective feelings and the aim to pursue certain a priori defined ideological goals (Inglehart, 1997).
The postmodern view of science is far from synonymous with critical theory, but the two are interrelated because liberalism and Marxism both stress the liberation of individuals from inherited culture (Crick, 1987; Gray, 1986). Critical theory (and ideology) may tentatively be seen as an explicitly stated and rather extreme expression of postmodernism's stress on the importance of self-experience, self-expression, subjectivity and ideological goals in science.
[...] Science and ideology have two different roles. Science should strive for objectivity and high validity. Ideology should be the basis for underpinning personal and social group interests with rational thinking and empirical scientific facts in order to form relevant arguments in politics. The intentional merging of science and ideology into one inseparable entity will lead to soft totalitarianism, i.e. silence culture. This fact is illustrated by totalitarian states but also by the emergence of the postmodern phenomenon of cancel culture at western universities. The notion that critical theory solely enhances research based on individual self-experience is a false pretense, because critical theory is a broad ideological movement with diverse branches in academia. (MORE - details)
RELATED: Decolonization of Science