Yeah, try this @ the University of Chicago philosophy department, for example, and see how good your grades are — perhaps your professors were poor, but I think you’re just a common hater. Is it really such a stretch that there’s a place for both humanities and hard sciences ?
FWIW, I took many postmodern theory classes in college. Read most of Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard, etc. Fun classes, because you could write incoherent term papers at the last minute if you used the right buzzwords, and get an easy 'A'. Organic chem & neuroscience were not so easy.
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You read most of the entire corpus of works by Foucault, Derrida, and Lyotard? Or most of the assigned readings?
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Most of their entire corpus. Not just the assigned readings. I found their literary style fascinating and thrilling, even when their ideas were incoherent.
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That's exactly how most Sales and HR executives are promoted so it's not limited to academia
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Foucault and Marx had good analytical tools. However Marx policy prescriptions has horrendous consequences. What Foucault latter day followers do is to combine Focault et al analysis with Marxist policies prescription. Toxicity squared.
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With minimal knowledge of Foucault at the time, I once helped a young friend write an undergrad pomo essay over fb messenger. About four messages were exchanged, and I honestly made it up as I went along. She got a high B.
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Every day of my "American Cultures" requirement class at Berkeley, I thought to myself "this is not a STEM class". Did zero readings, half-assed the papers, walked out with an A. In engineering, they expected something of us.
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