Why is contemporary philosophy so inaccessible and obfuscatory?
Why is contemporary philosophy so inaccessible and obfuscatory?
If you don't write that way you aren't taken seriously.
Because it's building off stuff from the previous century which built off stuff from the previous century and so on for like 16 times, so it's just gonna get worse as time goes on
The Poetry Tree has a long been a growing and early has the lowest fruits been bought
It's not, unless you think you deserve instant gratification.
this
and this too, sadly
Try Vincent Descombes. Dunno what's available of him in English, but in French his books are both rigorous and very clear, a real pleasure to read and learn with him.
You're just dumb.
The French.
Modern philosophy prides itself on the exact opposite. You just can't connect premises or don't have the requisite knowledge/expertise of concepts that the philosophers purposely use to talk about deeper topics in that field. Otherwise they would have to write 20 page primers on the basics for every paper.
You can say that modern philosophy is so detailed and specific to the point of asinine autism but to say it is obfuscatory ,means you probably don't know much about modern philosophy