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[Anonymous No.9618017]

Is it too hard to read Foucault's more methodological works (Order of Things, Archaeology of Knowledge, etc.) with no prior knowledge of Nietzsche? If it helps, I've read Saussure.

[Anonymous No.9618026]

>>9618017
>reading leftists when you could be reading Moldbug, Hitler, and Evola

Start reading facts instead of feelings, sweety

[Anonymous No.9618027]

foucault was more of a historian/sociologist than a "philosopher" so he didn't write in some queer way that requires reading 10,000 pages of antique scrolls first to get his point

[Anonymous No.9618030]

>>9618026
quality shitpost

[Anonymous No.9618045]

>>9618017
foucault is an aids infested plagiarising hack

[Anonymous No.9618059]

Nietzsche won't help you with fuckall in the archaeological works. They feel very structuralist. Read some basic shit on structuralism, not Saussure but actual 1950s-1960s linguistic structuralism, and then read it alongside Gary Gutting's Archaeology of Knowledge and you should be fine.

OoT is alright once you get the hang of it, but Archaeology is obnoxiously difficult to read even when you know what you're doing. I took a course that covered it this year with a major Foucault scholar and even they were open that it's obscure or obtuse at various points.

[Anonymous No.9618069]

>>9618059
>getting this uptight about some foucault shit

god the education industry is such a piece of shit, some silicon valley dickheads need to disrupt the fuck out of this crap fast

[Anonymous No.9618078]

>>9618059
>major Foucault scholar
>they
kek

[Anonymous No.9618093]

>>9618026
>not reading Foucault so you can use his ideas to challenge the neoliberal consensus and legitimize your "Hyperborean Aryans from Atlantis" theory as a rejection of grand metanarratives

[Anonymous No.9618488]

>>9618059
>Gary Gutting's Archaeology of Knowledge
There's no such book. Do you mean "Archaeology of Scientific Reason"?