/lit/ - Literature

I'm going to do you all a favour and save you a lot of time:

French "philosophy" is generally nonsense. Foucault spoke the least nonsense, but he still spoke nonsense.

>Searle claims Foucault told him: “In France, you gotta have ten percent incomprehensible, otherwise people won’t think it’s deep–they won’t think you’re a profound thinker.” When Searle later asked Pierre Bourdieu if he thought this was true, Bourdieu insisted it was much worse than ten percent


I have freed you from your chains, but there is no need to thank me -- my benevolence is both boundless and given without restraint