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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 Clarity in Philosophy

The most common complaint. If we could hire archives, the complaints, this would be near the top of the list. Judith Butler also blames it on German philosophy, which is kind of funny. I once assigned one of his books for a course I was teaching in Berkeley and my students couldn't make head and their tail out of it. So you can have a look at that. The logic of practice is the English translation. It's about what I call a background.

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