2) banal observations once you finally figure out WTF they are talking about. check.
3) lauded for being the smartest, greatest, most brilliant intellectual of their age. check.
4) books with inscrutable titles like Bubbles: Spheres Volume I: Microspherology and Rage and Time. check. (LOL! How big do your balls have to be to give a book a title like that?)
5) constant name-dropping of fashionable intellectuals. check.
Must be European philosophy!
UPDATE: quote from Amazon description of Bubbles. Behold the enormity of Peter Sloterdijk's balls:
"reinterprets the history of Western metaphysics as an
inherently spatial and immunological project, from the
discovery of self (bubble) to the exploration of world
(globe) to the poetics of plurality (foam)."
2) banal observations once you finally figure out WTF they are talking about. check.
3) lauded for being the smartest, greatest, most brilliant intellectual of their age. check.
4) books with inscrutable titles like Bubbles: Spheres Volume I: Microspherology and Rage and Time. check. (LOL! How big do your balls have to be to give a book a title like that?)
5) constant name-dropping of fashionable intellectuals. check.
Must be European philosophy!
UPDATE: quote from Amazon description of Bubbles. Behold the enormity of Peter Sloterdijk's balls:
http://www.amazon.com/Bubbles-Spheres-Microspherology-Semiot...