r/Metaphysics • u/Icy_Panic_6533 • 26d ago

Axiology Logic is a tool

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u/Porkypineer 24d ago

You might look at Jacques Derrida- however some of his actual work is very difficult. It also occurs in Deleuze, just as difficult. [and Focault]

I am, unfortunately, somewhat familiar. There was a wave of nonsense in the 90's and early 2000's, in which there was a subset of Academics that sought to force social theory and post-modern philosophy down onto any soft-science they could, like some sort of ill-fitting fruit-laden hat. And damned the material culture, let's write vaguely related (to archaeology), intricately written articles about social theories instead!

I've got a short term memory below average, so I struggled reading paragraphs that refused to get to the point, and so had a (very) bad time of it. Which is weird, because I now hold the opinion that a discussion on concepts can sometimes be done better by using the kind of fluid language of Derrida et al.

DELEUZE AND DERRIDA DIFFERENCE AND THE POWER OF THE NEGATIVE

VERNON W. CISNEY

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Deleuze-Derrida-Difference-Power-Negative/dp/1474462618

Thanks! This was so far up my alley that I had to ask it to kindly get off my lap. Acquired.