Timeline for Why are French postmodern philosophers (like Baudrillard) so hard to read/understand?
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| Feb 16, 2023 at 8:23 | comment | added | user64655 | Does this answer your question? Do some continental philosophers deliberately obfuscate their writing? Why? | |
| Jan 4, 2018 at 19:38 | comment | added | user20253 | I find philosophical texts to vague and merely poetic when the author has little to say. Your examples do not seem to contradict this idea. | |
| Jan 4, 2018 at 18:15 | answer | added | Opposum | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 30, 2017 at 2:49 | answer | added | user25714 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 30, 2016 at 6:13 | answer | added | David Bahry | timeline score: 12 | |
| Sep 17, 2016 at 19:08 | answer | added | André Souza Lemos | timeline score: 3 | |
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| Jun 13, 2016 at 0:24 | comment | added | Cdn_Dev | Because if they used clear language their works would be 5 pages long and people would realise they didn't really say anything. | |
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| May 13, 2016 at 18:05 | comment | added | Alexander S King | I've read somewhere that Derrida used deliberately confusing language to prove his point about there being such thing as fixed meaning. | |
| May 13, 2016 at 9:42 | answer | added | JSFDude | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 7, 2015 at 20:41 | comment | added | vkjb38sjhbv98h4jgvx98hah3fef | @J.LS Funny that that was cowritten by Sokal, who also got a nonsensical paper published in a famous journal to make a statement about those kinds of texts :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair | |
| Apr 4, 2015 at 11:24 | comment | added | vkjb38sjhbv98h4jgvx98hah3fef | @J.LS Thanks. And as for Baudrillard, I can sympathise with your statement, in a way whilst reading him I felt that the subject matter wasn't that complicated. But his writing almost made me feel like there should be more, and I just wasn't understanding it properly. Opaque and somewhat superficial would be an apt description of what my experience was reading him, and confirms my suspicions (that the writing style was quite prozaic, but not necessarily alluding to deeper, hidden meaning). I'll try Foucault. | |
| Apr 3, 2015 at 1:55 | comment | added | virmaior | There was a question a while ago on basically the same topic... philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/21292/… | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 18:23 | comment | added | J. LS | I think you'll find Baudrillard difficult without having read any French strucualists; I would recommend having a look at Sassure in particular. If you are interested in reading modern French philosophy more generally I wouldn't recommend Baudrillard; his thought is often somewhat superficial (although never vacuous) and always opaque. Foucault is generally much more accessible. | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 8:59 | comment | added | vkjb38sjhbv98h4jgvx98hah3fef | @J.LS This feels like a little bit like a challenge, but Peter Sloterdijk is the one I've read that falls roughly in the same timeframe. Frankfurter schule, if you can group that with the aforementioned philosophers. Other than that, most philosophers I've read were published earlier. Why? | |
| Apr 1, 2015 at 22:01 | comment | added | J. LS | What other 20th century continental philosophy are you familiar with ? | |
| Apr 1, 2015 at 18:01 | comment | added | vkjb38sjhbv98h4jgvx98hah3fef | @Lukas Shots fired! :) | |
| Apr 1, 2015 at 17:38 | comment | added | Lukas | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscurantism :D | |
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