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

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The Purpose of Obscurantism

I like what he's calling obscurantism. He's saying there is a truth in these complicated words that could be said more clearly. To me, this is a complete misunderstanding of truth. It's not produced in the process of language that it's outside, and language represents it. So- The truth is for you to accuse Derrida or Dilism Gatori of something like that. But then we're also ascribing the tension of intention to text and performance. I think Foucault made himself intentionally weirder than he needed to be. You shouldn't listen to a YouTuber on anything.

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