Noam Chomsky on French Intellectual Culture & Post-Modernism
I obviously haven’t been posting much lately. Not sure when or whether I will resume frequent posting. But I’ll use this as a place for things that really grab my attention. Here is an interview with Noam Chomsky on the peculiar features of French intellectual culture — its insularity, its anti-rationalism, its Stalinist traditions — that contribute to its embrace of odd ideologies like variants of postmodernism (and Lacanian psychoanalysis):
March 28th, 2012