These ultimately self-abnegating paradigms

From an article, Alternating Realities by Richard Wolin, reviewing Why the World Does Not Exist by Markus Gabriel. Recent trends in the field of philosophy.

As Gabriel tells it, the new realism emerged as an attempt to free philosophy from the dead end in which it had become entrapped by two earlier fashionable trends, postmodernism and social constructivism. They shared a thorough­going skepticism concerning the capacity of the human mind to penetrate the nature of objective reality, and held that all we can really know is our representations of reality. The upshot of these ultimately self-abnegating paradigms was that professional philosophy had de facto given up on reality.