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“After the Hunt,” the tale of possible plagiarism and sexual harassment putatively set in the Yale philosophy department…

…sounds as awful as one might hope it would be. This line from the linked review was a giveaway that the film’s creators have no idea what goes on in Yale’s philosophy department (or in philosophy):

And because Hank and Alma are assistant professors of philosophy in hot pursuit of tenure, the story is littered with philosophical name-drops: we hear about Foucault’s panopticon, and Adorno’s “Minima Moralia,” and Freud’s misogyny and, in an unfortunate moment, Hegel’s lack of control over “little Hegel,” with a crotchward hand gesture to match. Maggie’s dissertation is on “the resurgence of virtue ethics,” and Hank is confident she is lifting some of it directly from Giorgio Agamben’s 1995 text “Homo Sacer,” though it’s never explained how she’d make one fit the other.

The idea that Yale philosophy in this day and age would have two assistant professors talking about Foucault, Adorno, and Agamben…well, talk about fanciful!

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