|
I've read Kermode's 'Shakespeare's Language', It's great, very insightful and thorough.
I agree with that too. It does seem that that sort of verbosity is actually hiding the banality of the ideas or lack of ideas altogether. Have you read 'Intellectual Impostures' by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont? Although mainly attacking the (obfuscating) misuse of scientific and mathematical terminology, it's a fantastic and sometimes funny critique of a lot of those postmodernist philosophers/theorists (Not so much Benjamin, more Lacan, Baudrillard etc).
You might be right about that. I've read bits of Benjamin and didn't get it, need to go back to it. But someone like Foucault I think, despite writing pretty obscurely, has something to say, but because he's so fashionable a lot of bullshitters reference him.
|