> anyone who went to school in the 90s and 00s got exposure to the frankfurt school writers, (Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, etc.) Well, if it is your case the expo

> anyone who went to school in the 90s and 00s got exposure to the frankfurt school writers, (Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, etc.) Well, if it is your case the exposure would probably have to be homeopathic, because Frankfurt school has nothing to do with any of the 3. I highly doubt anybody but the French and the Swiss have to deal with Lacan luckily (psychoanalysis was always a pseudoscience, not that PNL is any better), and Foucault stated that Marxism was bound to the 19th century and made absolutely no sense outside of it, which makes it likely that you actually don't know about him despite citing his name. He was also an unlikeable doomer, pretentious and a whiner (the last two are clearly from his minority habitus), and wrote as such. Of the 3 you cite, only Derrida has had any influence (on linguistics and literary criticism), and I highly doubt you read any of his thoughts, mainly because it's unreadable slop (you really have to power through it) but also because I found out 6 years ago that most USians talk about him and made him say the opposite of what he wrote. It's either very bad translation, bad reading comprehension (which would be understandable if it wasn't the literal opposite of his writing) or people talking about him without actually reading him. In fact, I will here write the main idea of Derrida: words meanings change through time and culture. Hence you can't really judge an author book with your current understanding. You also can't understand it from what you think you know about the time it was written. The only way to judge a book is by it's intrinsic coherence. To really understand what the author means, you have to find its internal contradictions. He isn't completely clear about what these contradictions are, but finding figures of speech instead of just reading words in school to do literary analysis is because of him. If you think we should just go back to only reading words and stop trying to find meaning through figures of speech in school, I'm not totally opposed to it, but you need arguments. I'm pretty sure that the 'gone with the wind' netflix changes would have absolutely disgusted him and is pretty much the opposite of what he stood for.