<div>On 5/29/06, B. <<a href="mailto:docile_body@yahoo.com">docile_body@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> "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. </blockquote></div> 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.