Absolution Quote by Rich Villodas

“With Derrida, you can hardly misread him, because he’s so obscure. Every time you say, "He says so and so," he always says, "You…

— John R. Searle

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I…

— Camille Paglia

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Sometimes I think you just have to trust that the things you're doing make sense, instead of sitting down and analyzing this and that…

— Fernando Mastrangelo

“What has become of critique when someone as eminent as Stanley Fish, the “enemy of promises” as Lindsay Waters calls him, believes he defends…

— Bruno Latour

“School of Resentment is a term coined by critic Harold Bloom to describe related schools of literary criticism which have gained prominence in academia…

— Harold Bloom

“What is happening in Egypt now, and in the countries of the Arab Spring, confirms a global phenomenon that the human became in the…

— Mohamed Addakhakhny

“This left, which strangely echoes a libertarian and even neoliberal ethic of ant-statism, is nurtured intellectually by thinkers such as Michel Foucault and all…

— David Harvey

“MEDICATION IS AN incredibly attractive concept. Not just for the person with depression, or the person running a pharmaceutical firm, but for society as…

— Matt Haig

“I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read Being and…

— Michael Gira

“This book first arose out of a passage in [Jorge Luis] Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all…

— Michel Foucault

“But what Marie-Laure remembered, standing at the rail as it whistled past, was her father saying that Foucault's pendulum would never stop. It would…

— Anthony Doerr