I used to be interested in philosophy back in highschool, but now it’s just not doing it for me. Alot of it just seems to be like I think therefore I am, but if I wasn’t I wouldn’t be because if I was I would, but if I couldn’t, then I wouldn’t be able to, and if i… like bro maybe I’m dumb, but wtf are these dudes on about??? 😭
On another note, some of the worst of it like Nihilism goes so well hand in hand with capitalism.
Taimur Rahman also did an interview here where he discusses precisely the kind of thing Gabriel Rockhill does - how postmodern philosophy came to function as a distraction from class analysis -
https://probablycancelledpod.libsyn.com/postmodern-neo-marxism-enter-the-void-w-dr-taimur-rahman
(can’t vouch for every episode of that podcast but this one is great)
edit: for those who prefer articles, Rockhill has published some good ones here:
https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/author/gabrielrockhill/
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Rahman is a very well-respected and legit Pakistani ML. He recently did a great episode with Luna Oi on the whole Imran Khan situation.