well, imo any of the continentals, even the more obscuritarian ones, are a lot more valuable than anything analytic philosophy has to offer. (Valuable here means valuable to revolutionary politics) Im not a big fan of the post-structuralists either, but I think they do at least offer a meaningful perspective. On the other hand, what does analytic philosophy have to offer? Chomsky? His critique was basically just "I can't understand your writings and you are just trying to sound smart." I really don't know why people take that guy seriously at all...
Oh, 100%. There's virtually no serious engagement with revolutionary politics in the mainstream analytic tradition. Most professional philosophy across the board is just garbage, and I say that as a professional philosopher. I mostly do fairly niche foundation of climate science and complexity stuff, though, so I have little contact with either mainstream analytic or continental stuff. I was going to say that my professional work is basically separate from my political engagement, but that's not exactly true: I radicalized in large part because of my work on climate science.
well, imo any of the continentals, even the more obscuritarian ones, are a lot more valuable than anything analytic philosophy has to offer. (Valuable here means valuable to revolutionary politics) Im not a big fan of the post-structuralists either, but I think they do at least offer a meaningful perspective. On the other hand, what does analytic philosophy have to offer? Chomsky? His critique was basically just "I can't understand your writings and you are just trying to sound smart." I really don't know why people take that guy seriously at all...
Oh, 100%. There's virtually no serious engagement with revolutionary politics in the mainstream analytic tradition. Most professional philosophy across the board is just garbage, and I say that as a professional philosopher. I mostly do fairly niche foundation of climate science and complexity stuff, though, so I have little contact with either mainstream analytic or continental stuff. I was going to say that my professional work is basically separate from my political engagement, but that's not exactly true: I radicalized in large part because of my work on climate science.