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Guys like Réné Descartes and Michel Foucault seem so stuffy and intellectual that they’re almost inhuman. But when you read these thirty insults they’ve lobbed at each other––sometimes across the centuries––you’ll find them a bit more human. Some insults are just low, like Kierkegaard’s opinion of H.L. Martensen: “My opponent is a glob of snot.”

Here’s one that’s more intellectual, but no less devastating. Here’s Camille Paglia’s opinion of Michel Foucault:

“The truth is that Foucault knew very little about anything before the seventeenth century and, in the modern world, outside France. His familiarity with the literature and art of any period was negligible. His hostility to psychology made him incompetent to deal with sexuality, his own or anybody else’s. … The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.”

Yikes. Almost seems like a low blow. See the full list at the article.

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