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I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism Paperback – October 4, 2022

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“Woke” perspectives on Critical Race Theory, the Me Too movement, and transgender-recognition are chipping away at our collective commitment to Enlightenment values such as rational inquiry, socioreligious tolerance, and inalienable rights—the values on which the United States was founded. Mark Goldblatt exposes the false premises and faulty logic that lies at the core of Woke belief.

“Mark Goldblatt is one of America's most uncompromising literary iconoclasts.”
–John Podhoretz, editor of Commentary Magazine

As you read these words, a war is being fought. The battlefields are classrooms and courtrooms, newsrooms and boardrooms, bedrooms and bathrooms. At stake is nothing less than the nature of truth. Bestselling author, political columnist, and college professor Mark Goldblatt explains how a perennial philosophical error—the belief that truth is what your spirit desires rather than what reality demands—has gotten the upper hand, and how that error is undermining the intellectual and moral values of liberal democracy.

Advocates for Critical Race Theory, the Me Too movement, and transgender-recognition, often grouped under the umbrella term “Woke,” share more than a perpetual sense of grievance, an attraction to street theater, and an intense dislike of straight white guys who drink cheap beer and wear their baseball caps backward. They share a devotion to subjectivism. Their gathering principle is the idea that subjective belief, if it is heartfelt, trumps whatever objective, verifiable evidence may be brought against it. For these social justice warriors, if you sincerely and passionately believe an injustice is being done, then the effort to determine whether that belief corresponds with reality is a further injustice.

In I Feel, Therefore I Am, Goldblatt takes both a scalpel and a sledgehammer to Woke subjectivism, analyzing not only its false premises and logical fallacies, but also the many absurdities to which it leads. The topics are philosophical, yet the tone is conversational. It’s that rarest of books that forces you to think while making you laugh out loud.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bombardier Books (October 4, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
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Mark Goldblatt is a novelist, columnist and book reviewer as well as a college professor at Fashion Institute of Technology of the State University of New York.

His controversial first novel, Africa Speaks, a satire of black urban culture, was published in 2002 by The Permanent Press. His second novel, Sloth, a comedic take on postmodernism, was published in June 2010 by Greenpoint Press.

Goldblatt is perhaps best known as a political commentator. He has written hundreds of opinion pieces for a combination of the New York Post, the New York Times, USA Today, the Daily News, Newsday, National Review Online and the American Spectator Online. He has been a guest on the Catherine Crier Show on Court TV and done dozens of radio interviews for stations across the country and in England. His integrity has been called into question by the Village Voice - which should count for something.

Goldblatt's book reviews have appeared in The Common Review, Commentary, Reason Magazine, and the Webzine Ducts. His academic articles have appeared in Philosophy Now, Academic Questions, Sewanee Theological Review, English Renaissance Prose, Issues in Developmental Education 1999, the Encyclopedia of Tudor England and the Dictionary of Literary Biography.

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Marshall M. Snyder
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book.
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2023
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Dissects woke very well.
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Dan
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book!
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2022
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Woke culture is not cool. Good book here by the Professor to go after the absurdities of wokeness.
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Francisco
5.0 out of 5 stars a good handle on the sleight of hand involved in the types of rhetoric used by the woke
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2023
What I was looking forward to in Goldblatt's I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism, was a good handle on the sleight of hand involved in the types of rhetoric used by the folks that see racism and oppression and power dynamics in everything. I have not been disappointed.

The book includes some clear definitions of Theory and Axiom. Mixing up axioms and theory seems to be key in the sleight of hand.

Theory: pages 27-28
"...a theory is an attempt to explain something, to account for a set of facts that seem otherwise perplexing... Theories are not necessarily true. They may or may not correspond with reality... they must be falsifiable. Falsified theories–theories that do not correspond with reality, that consistently fail to explain the set of facts they purport to explain–get discarded. If a theory is falsified but not discarded, it isn't really a theory; it's an article of faith."

Axiom - pages 60-61
"The omnipresence and explanatory power of racism is... the "theory" in Critical Race Theory... It is less a theory than an axiom... Grasping the theory-axiom distinction enables us to make sense of the various rhetorical approaches utilized by advocates of CRT. Axioms are more basic than theories. Theories are falsifiable beliefs that are logically analyzed and empirically tested to determine their validity. If a theory doesn't hold up, it's either revised or abandoned altogether. Axioms on the other hand, are systemic starting points; they are methodological givens. They are not falsifiable once you have bought into the system and thus there is never a need to revise them. They are not subject to logical analysis and empirical testing because they are the tools of logical analysis and empirical testing."

"...If you take as axiomatic that racism lies at the heart of every significant event, then that's that. Your analysis of past and present events must go in that direction. You are not so much scrutinizing evidence as connecting the dots from the event to racism. Here's what happened... now where's the racism?... The causal role of racism is not a thing to be analyzed; it is the starting point from which your analysis proceeds."

"Evidence that your axiom may be false, thus, represents not so much an intellectual challenge as a cognitive disconnect. It's not on the explanatory menu; it doesn't compute... Because you're treading on an axiom rather than an actual theory, logical analysis and empirical testability become moot. What remains is emotion..."
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Lars Walker
5.0 out of 5 stars Getting your bearings in a sea of subjectivism
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2023
If like me you’ve read Francis Schaeffer and Allan Bloom, and if you’ve pondered C.S. Lewis’s “The Poison of Subjectivism,” you’re aware that the central intellectual battle of our time rages around Reason. Does reason give us a window on reality, something concrete on which we can fully rest our weight, or is everything “subjective”; is one person’s world entirely different from another’s? Is thinking worth anything, or must passion rule all things?

My friend Mark Goldblatt, novelist, columnist, and educator, provides a useful guide in his recent book, "I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism." The book offers a short historical overview of how the Enlightenment came to enshrine Reason, and then how a rising tide of Subjectivism gradually infiltrated our institutions of higher education, turning the culture of the mind into streams of thought that must ultimately run dry.

He examines Critical Race Theory, showing how it employs Subjectivist philosophy to exalt feeling over fact, turning the quest for knowledge into a quest for raw power (because once reason is dead, we can’t have a discussion. All that’s left is a shouting match. And after shouting come fists). He goes on to outline how the Me-Too movement corrupted its honorable ideals by abandoning objective standards of justice, and how more and more people, in the spirit of transgenderist dogmatism, are now destroying their own bodies.

He ends by suggesting some means by which our schools of liberal arts, having become divinity schools of Woke religion, might be amputated and allowed to wither, before they can poison the whole body.

This book is only six months old, but it might possibly already be too late. The schools of the STEM disciplines, in which the author places much hope, seem to be already in the process of corruption, embracing Woke mathematics and physics (Want to fly in an airplane designed according to Woke math principles? You first; I’ll wait).

Still, "I Feel, Therefore I Am" is a worthwhile introduction for the thoughtful reader desiring some points of reference in the churning sea of Relativist culture. I enjoyed it and recommend it.
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aguag001
3.0 out of 5 stars Goldblatt's writing style...
Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2023
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Goldblatt's writing style isn't for everyone - at least not me.

While I agree with his main argument and this whole "I feel therefore I am movement" ticks me off, I couldn't get through his book because I found his tone to be condescending, overly pretentious and professorial. He talks above, over and down to his reader.

My late cousin, Dr. Margaret Mandrillo, was a professor at UVA who gave up tenure to care for her elderly parents. She was the smartest person I ever knew and she taught me that truly intellectual people adjust their language and talk with their students or audience, not down or at them.

It's too bad Goldblatt did not get that same lesson my cousin gave me from a more-enlightened (no pun intended) colleague.
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GeekyPhotogMomSings
2.0 out of 5 stars Bleh - Atlas shrugged and I snored
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2024
While I appreciate people taking the time to think and to organize their thoughts about anything, I didn't like the writing style. It's a pretentious, condescending thought piece that reflects the author's extreme sense of being special, a sense of high esteem - warranted or not, and individualism that is so Ayn Randesque and dangerous in the way that we've allowed corporations to take over America to the detriment of the American Dream. It's just one of those smartish yet borderline sociopathic ideologies that are self-centered and entitled to the detriment of everyone. The social contract exists for a reason.
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