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Statilius the Epicurean
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Junior Chimp
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« on: May 02, 2020, 08:25:25 PM »

Overrated: I cannot see how this can't be Marx. And I like Marx, as a historian at least. Which other political philosopher to this day has parties with parliamentary representation which treat their writings as holy texts? His crippling influence weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living left.
Underrated: Idk. I'm a Bernard Williams stan in everything so Bernard Williams I suppose, although I don't think he's underrated in his target audience of analytical academia. Generally sceptical of political philosophers as a whole though.
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Statilius the Epicurean
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Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2020, 01:49:20 AM »

I can't believe I forgot about Foucault when I was doing the OP for this thread. He did have some good insights, but the fact that the Most Cited Scholar In The Humanities is someone who wanted to legalize pedophilia and supported the Ayatollah Khomeini is an embarrassment.

Well sure, but should academics have not cited Foucault on power or what have you because he wrote a positive article about the Islamic Revolution? This kind of charge is like saying Kant is a discredited philosopher because he was a biological racist (and people have argued this).

Far more problematic about Foucault is that the actual history he wrote is basically crap.
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