Bananadine wrote:

Zsenitan wrote:

But Michel Foucault is relentlessly great. His is a superfluously powerful and sensual intellect. I remember the first time I read Foucault. I was shocked to the point of being aroused. Nothing straightens my boner out like a really smart person, and this was hands down the smartest and luxuriously wastefully sexual logic and rhetoric I had ever encountered, ever.

I geniunely dislike you, Jerry, so you should fuck right on off out of here posthaste. But everyone else should read Madness And Civilization.

Hm I have been meaning to read Foucault--I don't know much more about postmodernism than that everybody with opinions about these things seems to think it's important (while also hating it), and that Foucault has a lot to do with it, and that everybody with opinions about these things seems to love him. So his work seems like an interesting place to start. I think I will still be stubborn enough to attempt it, despite my complete failure to follow that quote.

Amazon customer L. Troy Beals wrote:

I read this book for a philosophy of history class as a student at college. If you do not like philosophy and are easily distracted when reading mind-numbing abstractions then do not pick up this book. The thesis, or point, of the chapters are convoluted and seem to meander everywhere. I could read a chapter twice and still not have a clue what the author was saying. I can't comment on how persuasive his arguements are because I'm still not sure what he is saying. If you like philosophy then this book is for you becuase the author launches off into a universe of abstractions and shades that make one go insane, thus the title of his book.