/lit/ - Literature

So, the shentral theme in Albert Camus' 'The Stranger' is not the lack of meaning as such, but the nature of deshire. Ish not that Mersault, the hero, shoots the arab man for no reason, it ish that he shoots him based on a desire he cannot formulate in a way that ish acceptable to the bourgeois society around him. And so, as he goes to jail, to trial and so on, he cannot justify his actions, yet he experiences desire. In Lacanian psychoanalysis...

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Noam Chomsky has referrred to post-modernist and post-structuralist philosophers like Lacan, Derrida, Zizek and others (although unmentioned by him I'm assuming Deleuze would be a prime candidate as well) as charlatans with nothing real to contribute to discourse other than mystification of simple ideas, he attributes this phenomenon to the French culture that these movements have grown out of. Which side of the fence are you on /lit/? Who's side do you take?