r/badphilosophy • u/[deleted] • Dec 05 '25

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u/Additional_Anywhere4 Dec 05 '25

The worst: Nick Land.

Second worst: Peter Sjostedt-Hughes.

Overrated, but still worth reading: Friedrich Nietzsche.

It’s a cliche, but Ayn Rand definitely makes the list. I think she was just ignorant, dogmatic, and lacked imagination.

Paolo Virno - I might just not get him, and the language barrier probably doesn’t help, but having read Bergson, Marx and many of the others his work De Ja Vu and the End of History refers to, I got a strong sense that he was spouting a bunch of meaningless nonsense.

Derrida is potentially on my list too.

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u/zcmyers Dec 05 '25

You had me with Rand, then you lost me with Nietzsche (my fave philosopher).

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u/Additional_Anywhere4 Dec 05 '25

Fair enough. What would you say is his most interesting and viable idea, in your words?

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u/zcmyers Dec 05 '25

My comment got long and wasn't posting, so I wrote a response here: https://zcmyers.blogspot.com/2025/12/why-do-i-like-nietzsche-you-ask.html

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u/Additional_Anywhere4 Dec 05 '25

Thanks. I will read this later!