One of the most wishy-washy, bourgeois philosophy out there. Bitch I know I exist, now how is that going to help us get rid of capitalism.

  • wmz [any]
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    3 years ago

    how am I being proudly ignorant? Also, Sartre was one of the biggest critics of foucault and structuralism. I'll have you guess whose ideas developed into actually coherent theories today. Hint: not the one who was directly influenced by a nazi.

    • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      So what were the basis of his critiques? What assumptions did he make that were erroneous? How would you refute them? There's value in reading what you don't agree with, even if your ultimate goal is to understand why. This is all beside the point that your original critique was that it existentialism doesn't help you overthrow capitalism here and now. Guess what, neither does Foucault.

      • wmz [any]
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        3 years ago

        Is this post really that hard to understand? Do you think I have not thoroughly read Sartre and others to come to the conclusion that existentialism is stupid? I don't need to go through exactly why liberalism is stupid every single time I call someone a lib, right? And you somehow decided to twist my words into "overthrow capitalism here and now" which is just plain ridiculous, what is going to overthrow capitalism here and now? I engage with philosophy to improve the world and myself, where overthrowing capitalism is a primary goal. I don't know what you find is wrong with that.

      • wmz [any]
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        3 years ago

        Sartre had good politics, but his philosophy is really unimpressive.

        • ChestRockwell [comrade/them, any]
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          3 years ago

          I actually agree on that. Heidegger (POS Nazi that he is), Kierkegaard, the later Derrida are all way better at the philosophy.