"Is this project to trace the roots of wokeness an intellectually honest attempt to grapple with the ideas of people you disagree with, or even to explain legitimately concerning social phenomenon like public shaming or mob justice? Not in my estimation."

Let me respond 1/483729 https://twitter.com/Jess_Abells/status/1293592455967735808

The author is not actually dead, @Jess_Abells. One of us knows whether my book is an intellectually honest attempt to grapple with certain ideas or not. That person is me. You can, of course, think that I have got it completely wrong & say why. You'd have to read it, of course.

However, if you begin by 'estimating' that I am dishonest & am not genuinely trying to explain anything accurately, the conversation is over. I could just as easily say you don't actually mean your article. I won't, though. I'll assume you are honest & sincere. @Jess_Abells

So, Sullivan doesn't list texts & theorists & you say "While on its face it seems like Sullivan and his contemporaries don’t know much about postmodernism or the history of philosophy, I think something more insidious is going on."
@Jess_Abells

I assure you the book is full of texts & theorists & we know quite a lot about postmodernism, but I wait agog to learn what insidious thing you suspect to be going on that is presumably not me discussing the evolution of postmodern thought sincerely & knowledgeably. @Jess_Abells

The book traces the development of the scholarship via core texts & scholars & their citations of postmodern theory, with particular focus on how Foucauldian notions of power, knowledge & discourses have been adapted by scholars explicitly saying they were doing that.

"To suggest that contemporary BIPOC, women, and LGBTQ+ theorists and their allies have been somehow poisoned by postmodernism is simply not born out by the facts"

Well, they don't consider it to be poisoned, obviously, @Jess_abell. They think it works well.

When Kimberlé Crenshaw defined intersectionality as 'contemporary politics linked to postmodern theory," she thought that was a good thing to do. Key texts in queer theory like "Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography" also sound quite positive, don't you think?