Critical Theory is an Art, Not a Science

Summary of Postmodernism > Concession > The Problem with the Term "Music Theory"
Critical Theory and Postmodernism frame themselves as science with absolutist position that there are no absolutes and all knowledge is subject to relativity. Robert Greenberg's explanation of why "Music Theory" is not theory, but art, serves as an excellent retort to the postmodernist intellectual snobbery.