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A review by drbjjcarpenter
Universality and Identity Politics by Todd McGowan
1.0
Ill-considered polemic disguised as academic work.
McGowan's vastly under-researched and poorly theorised attempt at presenting a critique of contemporary identity politics not only fails to fully capture the nuanced dynamics of identity discourse, but overly relies upon lazy (and conceptually confused) comparisons between identity politics and Nazism. What McGowan insists identity politics really refers to does not, it seems, actually capture how the term is used by anyone other than the very specific kind of person that McGowan wishes into existence out of a hope that he has someone to criticise.
Not really worth much, unfortunately.
Disappointing.
McGowan's vastly under-researched and poorly theorised attempt at presenting a critique of contemporary identity politics not only fails to fully capture the nuanced dynamics of identity discourse, but overly relies upon lazy (and conceptually confused) comparisons between identity politics and Nazism. What McGowan insists identity politics really refers to does not, it seems, actually capture how the term is used by anyone other than the very specific kind of person that McGowan wishes into existence out of a hope that he has someone to criticise.
Not really worth much, unfortunately.
Disappointing.