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Ruth Marcus would have been livid…

…if she had lived to see this.  Ruth told me years ago that Butler had great difficulty passing the logic requirement in the Yale PhD program in philosophy, and finally, Ruth took pity, and gave her a pass.  I had the sense she later regretted that.  On Butler, Martha Nussbaum got it right many years ago.  Critical Theory has been in a downward spiral for a long time now, but that an obscurantist posturing faker like Butler should be deemed its heir…oy veh.

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