The professor who taught me Derrida (translated by Gayatri Spivak, no less) told me that poor writing in philosophy dates back to Kant, who was a notoriously ba

The professor who taught me Derrida (translated by Gayatri Spivak, no less) told me that poor writing in philosophy dates back to Kant, who was a notoriously bad writer. But because Kant was also the father of all modern philosophy, a lot of future philosophers tried to emulate him and his often obtuse writing style. Over the years, this became convention. Convention became dogma. And this dogma is the reason why I've thrown more than a few books flying across the room in frustration