Kanelos: Postmodern Nihilism is a Seductive Secret Sauce for Academics
Pano Kanelos · Joe Lonsdale and Pano Kanelos on Building a New World-Class University · Joe Lonsdale · Feb 10, 2022 · at 8:41
Pano Kanelos, president of UATX, explains why Michel Foucault and postmodern philosophy gained widespread adoption across universities.
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“These ideas are seductive they're seductive because If you're the kind of intellectual vanguard, you're embedded in university and you've discovered the secret sauce to human history and the sauce tells you that actually there's no such thing as meaning and everything is empty in that it's exhilarating to be in that position.”
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