On the Science of Discord The “Diabolic” Idiom of French Postmodernism and the “Politics of Diversity” in America

Abstract

For the past three decades, exponents issued from so-defined under-represented clusters—mostly women and variously defined individuals “of color”—have visibly risen to positions of leadership and responsibility in all institutions of the USA. This development has been hailed as a most salubrious improvement in the overall makeup of civic America, and as such it therefore continues to be vigorously encouraged. The move appears to be the natural fruit of progressivism and of a not inconspicuous desire on the part of America’s traditional, White, and male-driven elite to make amends for its brutal past.