How could I have trouble understanding Williams, Foucault, and Bourdieu, but quickly understand...

[Writer]

Jean-Paul Sartre? Sartre is a dialectical thinker and writer; whereas, the first three are analytical. Why would the dialectical dude be easier for me to understand? Most folks in my class had the opposite problem - where the first three were easier.

I'm sorry. I just had a drink. I just dont' get it. Oh well, back to my paper draft...

~Writer~

[Chan790]

1. Sartre is easier to understand for some people despite his dialectic thinking...

because unlike Foucault, he says exactly what he's thinking and dislikes analogy. He's very literal.

"Hell is other people."
"Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete."
"I hate victims who respect their executioners."
"If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically."

There is no pretense to Sartre and thus it takes no effort to understand it if one is willing to take it at face value and stop trying to figure it out.

[woo me with science]

3. Exactly.

Sartre is very literal. He is a routine part of our local high school curriculum precisely because he is so accessible. I don't ever remember seeing Foucault on a high school reading list.

[david13]

2. Writer. It's not about reading. It's about writing. dc

[Capn Sunshine]

4. not everyone gets Sartre

Les Mains Sales is actually his opus :)