[lbo-talk] Chom v Fouc

[Jerry Monaco]

On 5/29/06, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> "Take Foucault: With enough effort, one can extract
> from his writings some interesting insights and
> observations, peeling away the framework of
> obfuscation that is required for respectability in the
> strange world of intellectuals, which takes on extreme
> forms in the weird culture of postwar Paris. Foucault
> is unusual among Paris intellectuals in that at least
> something is left when one peels this away."
>
> -B.
>

And then there is Derrida, who is proud of the fact that when you peal away
the framework of obfuscation there is nothing left.  A literary onion but
not as nutritious.
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