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[Anonymous No.10484280]

I thought this book would be written more universally like a classic philosophy text but flipping through it it looks like it has loads of references to minor academic nobodies. Is it necessary to read these guys to understand the whole work?

[Anonymous No.10484310]

>>10484280
Why would you even bother attempting to understand such garbage?

[Anonymous No.10484348]

>>10484280

if you wanna just have a cursory view of butler then no you dont need to read it.

but butler is working in a very long-standing academic tradition, so youll get more out of this book if you read those "minor academic nobodies."

[Anonymous No.10484988]

>>10484280
I would argue that it isn't necessary to read Butler at all. Even if you are interested in the topic of gender and such, it would probably be much more fruitful to read a secondary source that actually knows how to write and isn't a supreme philosophical hack explain Butler's work, rather than read Butler firsthand. I know it is a mortal sin to read secondary sources over primary in almost any intellectual endeavor, but Butler is in a league of her own.