Why the fuck are there leftists out there who recommend this bloated CIA adjacent fuck?
God this is tiresome. I seriously do not care about any of your gotchas. And it’s laughable that you’re pretending to base your position on “deconstructing Derrida” when you had to have the meaning of deconstruction explained to you in this thread. Like from the moment you heard that definition, you were like, how can I either dunk on this in order to dunk on Derrida, or how can I apply this to dunk on Derrida? You didn’t know what it meant and you still don’t know what it means and if I showed that you’re not applying it correctly you’d seamlessly transition back to “well, deconstructionism is dumb anyway.”
You know Marx’s ideas were inspired by Hegel, right? Even though Hegel reached entirely different political conclusions than Marx? If I showed a quote of Hegel defending slavery, should we also cancel Marx? What a load of nonsense. And that line of logic has absolutely nothing to do with deconstructionism, which, near as I can tell, you think means a sort of “one-drop rule” applied to philosophy, which is just… like, there is no possible way you could arrive at that conclusion if you’ve actually studied the concept in any capacity.
Why are you talking about Hegel and Marx and presenting deconstructionism as this mystical high-level concept, nah I got the concept, a method of discerning meaning from a text in a way that teases out differing interpretations usually thru contrast, just cause this perfectly coherent idea is used to generate ahistorical gibberish by theorists like Derrida does not mean I hold some hostility to the concept in general
My contention is that unlike Marx, Derrida on Heidegger is not simply engaging in a critique but taking the Nazi idealism of Heidegger at face vague while ironically commending/critiquing Heidegger for “rejecting the vulgar biologism of nazism in favor of a “spirit” nationalism, but thru this rejection revealing the same failed underpinnings of Nazism in general” this is just idealist nonsense, there’s no “revealing”, instead just a French doofus taking a Nazi doofus’s self-mythology at face vague and in no way undermining Nazism in the process
Derrida sounds good on paper, sure as shit don’t work in practice judging by that lecture
Can’t say Marx ever took Hegel at face value
Marx literally called himself a Hegelian, I’m dying to know what you’ll come up with next :data-laughing:
Ok, I don’t disagree with that? But what exactly do you think Marx meant when he “stood Hegel on his head”?
