>>43444I remember something I found odd from when he 1st caught on. On his website his lectures were archived & curated as if he were already a great thinker
Why is this odd? I studied philosophy & esp 20thC Continental. In France from the 1930s thru 1990s there was a whole culture surrounding the great thinkers & their spoken words.
Kojeve, Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida.... Ppl attended lectures, recorded them, transcribed them. There are even major lawsuits over unauthorized or pirated lectures.
Nowadays you can find recordings of the old masters & institutions like the European Graduate School post every lecture on YouTube
This is all very European & I'd never seen anything similar catch on in America. We don't have public philosophers & we consider ANYTHING remotely intellectual to be useless. But JBP presents himself like he's already a great intellectual, he's his own historian which is very postmodern of him
