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Convinced the worst socy professor I had (he went to Yale) loved this. It’s not bad, it’s just inane irrelevant socy4000.
“I knew next to nothing of post-structuralism, or its intellectual predecessor, structuralism-which took a more anthropological approach to erasing the individual - but it was so different from the dusty, wellwrought urn of poetic appreciation, ...”
Jun 25, 2023 06:04PM
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

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“He was a member of ‘the Hermeneutic Mafia,’ as even the Times called the brilliant circle of Yale literary critics who dabbled in the dark arts of deconstruction”

UGH
Jun 25, 2023 06:00PM
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions


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I know this is supposed to be a book about mental illness etc but there are just…so many side convos going on. Why so many Doonesbury references? I’m skipping over entire chapters that are just about Doonesbury???

Additionally, Michael just seems…like a horrible person? I know the intent isn’t to exonerate him of his crimes, etc but I’ve come to hate a man I’ve never met.
Jun 25, 2023 05:17PM
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions


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