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Continental Philosophy is basically useless. Critical Theory is usually fashionable nonsense, and the best continentals are the most fashionable and the most no
by Der_Einzige 2y ago
Continental Philosophy is basically useless. Critical Theory is usually fashionable nonsense, and the best continentals are the most fashionable and the most nonsensical.
You know it's bad when one of the champions of the Continentals, Zizek, is at his most coherent in a decade when he's talking about how he received the "N word pass" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkvw6BUgU0I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkvw6BUgU0I
- gizajob 2y agoCalling critical theory fashionable nonsense is itself fashionable nonsense.
- Yodel0914 2y agoNietzsche, Kierkegaard, Camus, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Freud, Hegel and Marx all, I believe, fall under the 'continental philosophy' banner. It seems rather, um, ambitious to call them all useless.
- Vecr 2y agoI don't think Nietzche is useless, but I'd trade a #251 on the list, Judea Pearl for him every time. And he's probably the most useful in your "continental" list, thinking a bit about replaceability.
- Vecr 2y agoI think of Slavoj Zizek similarly to a comedian. If you judge him on those terms someone like Norm McDonald had better and more influential lines, but he's okay.