Reddit mentions of A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present

Wat? What are you arguing? Is this another attempt to bring up the analytic vs. continental debate? Why not just argue why mac is better than windows in there too, just to make this more exciting.

Where did I argue that continental philosophy has superior tenets to analytic philosophy? All I said was accusing a philosopher or his/her work of obscurantism or not understanding his work isn't a valid criticism. It's like saying quantum physics is based on too much obscure theory and because I can't penetrate it, it's a waste of time.

And, mind you, philosophers on both sides of the 'aisle' for a lack of a better term have been accused of obscurantism including Plato and his Noble Lie, Kant, Wittgenstein and Marx who accused German Idealist of being obscurants but was later accused of the same by Popper and Hayek. Basically it's become a political term that's akin to politicians accusing each other of not telling the whole story or hiding the facts, which is a telling a sign in philosophy to say the least.

Personally speaking I'm in no way wishing to disparage the methods and rules by which analytic philosophy is conducted. But at the same time I'm very thankful that my university at the undergraduate level through political theory (not the philosophy department) introduced me to continental philosophy and pointed out how truths need to be examined post-hoc. Many postmodernist philosophers whose works I currently admire are Judith Butler at UC Berkeley, for her studies challenging gender relations, and Gayatri Spivak a 'follower' of deconstructionism, who teaches at Columbia, and who speaks of the subaltern of the former colonial world addressing Chomsky's point that intellectuals in the third world are shut out of philosophy, but she blames it on the metaphysics of Kant and Hegel in A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present. Here's the pivotable essay one can use to introduce oneself to Spivak's post-structural interpretation on post-colonialism: Can the Subaltern Speak?. Based on the current continental philosophers' work I believe post-structuralist philosophy is inherently subversive which makes analytic philosophers defensive about their own work. But that's just my opinion.

And I still say Macs are better.