WOKE By Dr. Jon Mills

WOKE: A Critique of Social Justice Ideology

By Dr. Jon Mills

"Professor Mills has been on the front lines of psychotherapy and his urgent dispatches reveal how social justice imperatives have infected therapists' ideas about the causes of patient suffering and corrupted their treatment practices."

--Sally Satel, MD, Yale University School of Medicine

Most of us have observed, or been subject to, victim ideology run wild. Dr. Jon Mills, Canadian philosopher, psychoanalyst, and retired clinical psychologist, has written a new book called WOKE: A Critique of Social Justice Ideology, which brings together a high-powered cast of liberal scholars who break new ground in the emerging discipline of "Critical Woke Studies" - the study of cultural progressive extremism.

The contributors apply a sophisticated centrist lens - drawing on intellectual history, analytic philosophy, and the sociology of institutional capture - to interrogate the excesses of left-wing race and gender activism. They follow the trail of progressive fundamentalism from its deep roots in postmodernism and critical theory toward its institutional manifestation in the form of DEI activism in universities, professional bodies and other elite spaces.

Critical Social Justice or woke-ism is a relatively new phenomena that has dominated the recent culture wars since the antiracism movement intensified in the wake of BLM's hero and mascot, George Floyd's, death. In this volume, internationally acclaimed cultural critics, social political theorists, psychologists, philosophers, behavioral scientists, and scholars of humanities examine contemporary issues in social critique that address a myriad of topics including:

·    Critical Race Theory (CRT)

·    Identity Politics

·    Decolonialism

·    Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Movements

·    Whiteness Theory

·    Gender Critical Feminism

·    Transgenderism

·    Cancel Culture

·    Antizionism/Antisemitism

·    The Free Speech Debate

·    Political Authoritarianism

This is the first book of its kind to offer a scholarly critique of the social justice ideology that has saturated our modern times, stoked by polarization and societal division, fomenting discord, radical politics, censorship, and new forms of fascism.

WOKE will be of interest to cultural theorists, philosophers, political scientists, journalists, media studies, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, psychoanalysts, religious studies, popular culture, and those generally interested in the humanities and social sciences. Anyone concerned about the cultural vandalism of Critical Social Justice should read this book.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Prof. Jon Mills, PsyD, PhD, ABPP is a Canadian philosopher, psychoanalyst, and retired clinical psychologist. He is Honorary Professor at the University of Essex, UK; Faculty in the Postgraduate Programs in Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy, Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, USA; and Faculty & Supervising Analyst at the New School for Existential Psychoanalysis, USA. The recipient of numerous awards for his scholarship, he is the author and/or editor of over 35 books in philosophy, psychoanalysis, psychology, and cultural studies. Dr. Mills is an internationally recognized scholar, teacher, and cultural critic, award winning author who maintains an active writing schedule, and lectures widely worldwide.