@Meaningness I'm trying to investigate the field and it would be good to have some idea of who to pay attention to + who to ignore
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Hmm… I’d say that it’s critical to have a basic understanding of Nietzsche and Heidegger first, because they are the framework >
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> within which the poststructuralists worked, and they’re also more important and better philosophers. Of course ideally you’d know >
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the whole history of philosophy first, but that’s impractical! Nietzsche and Heidegger are really the two key influences.
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Within poststructuralism narrowly construed, Foucault is the only one whose work I know well.
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Deleuze&Guattari and Baudrillard might be the best of the rest, but I know them only from secondary sources.
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Within “pomo” or “critical theory” more broadly, Lyotard’s original book on postmodernity is excellent—surprisingly sensible.
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Derrida is historically important, and had one small, significant insight, which fits in a paragraph, but got turned into a movement.
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Rorty’s early work (Mirror of Nature) is excellent, although a bit obvious. Later he went off into nihilism a bit. Worth a look.
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Camus’ _The Rebel_ isn’t exactly post-anything, but it’s part of the same tradition, and excellent, and easily readable.
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