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voidhorsetoday at 2:16 AM1 replyview on HN

Funnily enough, iirc Foucault viewed a large part of his work as extending the style of investigation Neitzsche initiated in Genealogy of Morals.

I think Nietzsche is great. His prose is a breath of fresh air and he's arguably the greatest literary stylist among philosophers since the Greeks. Sartre was pretty good too, likely thanks to his ability as a novelist. Some later continental philosophers would have really benefited from reading his aphorism that good writers write to be understood.


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__patchbit__today at 8:49 AM

David Macey (2000) Dictionary of Critical Theory; mentions Foucault a few times.