Unlike Butler or Derrida, Foucault writes plain, clear, dull, workmanlike prose. He's not a literary master like Wilson or Russell (the latter a Nobel Prize Winner for Literature), but few are, so talking of the "the style" of literary masters is sort of unfair. But Foucault is not unnecessarily obscure, jargonistic, etc. Zizek is often lucid and sparkling, but he can lapse into Lacanspeak, and then he loses me.
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> Jerry Monaco wrote:
> >
> > I have
> > read nothing written by Judith Butler or Derrida
> or Zizek or Foucault
> > that could not be written in the prose style of
> Edmund Wilson or
> > Bertrand Russell, or for that matter the Simone de
> Beauvoir of "The
> > Second Sex."
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