Dark Academia: A Reply to Elias Khoury
Abstract
Author Marc James Léger responds to Elias Khoury’s review of his book Bernie Bros Gone Woke: Class, Identity, Neoliberalism, which was published in volume 17 of the International Journal of Žižek Studies. While Léger accepts the one mistake in the book that Khoury correctly identifies, he takes issue with nearly everything else in Khoury’s review, which involves fallacies, misquotations, reductive arguments, misdirection and failure to mention anything that would contradict Khoury’s generally false claims. Léger describes the possibility of academic foul play in the context of a public secret directed against him and that he has been struggling against since the late 1990s.
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