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Pill Pod 121 - Obscurantism in French Philosophy: Searle on Foucault & Derrida

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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The Importance of Deconstruction in Ancient Greek Philosophy

Derrida is probably the most significant engagement with Plato in the 20th century. He's writing basically mythology in what's supposed to be philosophy, how obscure. But this is it shows the arbitrariness of this distinction that this is what philosophy is for. And then some weird assumption or presumption that this is the thing that philosophy should always only do follow these laws of decorum when it never has.

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