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Gustaf
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« on: December 06, 2008, 05:44:47 PM »

I don't like that kind of stuff. Ideas should be expressed in logically clear ways, not obscured in lofty rethoric, which seems to be a common problem with particularly French philosophers.
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« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2008, 05:48:58 PM »

I don't like that kind of stuff. Ideas should be expressed in logically clear ways, not obscured in lofty rethoric, which seems to be a common problem with particularly French philosophers.

To be fair the example I chose was one noted for its extremity: Levi-Strauss is clear (though difficult) to understand. He's Just Wrong.

I haven't read enough to really comment on specific people. But from the contact I have had with this kind of thinking in a general sense, that is my impression. Even complex ideas aren't really THAT hard to express with clarity and stringency, at least not in writing.
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« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2008, 05:58:23 PM »

My flat-mate is reading some, what's his name, Holbecque? right now. And that seems like bull. I've read some Camus and that's better, but still...overall, it sort of seems to me that it is a general issue with French philosophy from Rosseau and onwards.
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