Daily Archives: 25 April 2014

Foucault On Obscurantism: ‘They Made Me Do It!’

No one should ever go to a university without understanding the nature and motives of post-modernism.

“… Searle claims Foucault told him: ‘In France, you gotta have ten percent incomprehensible, otherwise people won’t think it’s deep–they won’t think you’re a profound thinker.’ When Searle later asked Pierre Bourdieu if he thought this was true, Bourdieu insisted it was much worse than ten percent …”

www.critical-theory.com/foucault-obscurantism-they-it/