Postmodernism overreached when it turned from literary texts to natural science

Evidence

Legitimate questions can of course be raised about the concepts of truth and objectivity—indeed the history of philosophy is very much about those debates—but the complete rejection of and disrespect for truth and objectivity goes too far. If the postmodernists had been content merely to interpret literary texts or even the symbols behind our cultural behavior, things might have been fine. But they weren’t. Next they came after natural science. — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 251

Categorization

• XREF: The boundary move described here mirrors the Science Wars and connects to the author’s broader post-truth argument elsewhere in the book.