ITT: Essential pseud-core

not an argument
No Logo is good at least

The Communist Manifesto is a pseud trap. The real patrician choice is Das Kapital.

Freud
Sartre
de Beauvoir
Derrida
Foucault
Zizek
Baudrillard

>Special mention
Naomi Klein. I don't know why, but all pseuds I've met in my life praised her unabashedly mediocre and economically-ignorant work.

these

Bump

If Plato is entry level why is it so few understand it? I mean, I bet you can't even tell me what The Republic is about, let alone explain its theories in depth.

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I’ll give you Sartre and Baudrillard but I think it’s pretty hard to make a case for the other ones.

Do we mean works that pseuds like, or thinkers that are actually shitty? If anybody bothered to read Freud himself they’d realize that while he might not be right, he at least makes a case for what he’s arguing. Reading The Interpretation of Dreams is incredibly rewarding and he also has the distinction of not writing so obtuselty that you need to dwell on it sentence by sentence like you do with a lot of popular thinkers.

Also I’ll defend Zizek to the hilt, beneath the pop surface he’s genuinely an interesting and innovative thinker. People get so caught up in his sex jokes and cultural critique that they forget that he is ultimately a philosopher and especially in his more recent books, he’s actually trying to put forth a new understanding of ontology.

The popularity of Klein surprises me considering she is afterall just a journalist and not a scholar so I’m not sure the authority that people thinks she has on the topics she writes about..

Doesn't answer the question. And Eastern Solipsism isn't better than Plato.

Zinn is a cuck