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The Next Big Idea · 2026-09-03 · 70 min · 10,974 words

How French Philosophy Wired Modern Thinking

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I'm Michael Kavnat, and I'm Rufus Grisscom. And this is the Next Big Idea. Today How Fury took over the world. and why it still matters. Ruvis.

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Lacan. Foucault. Derida. Anything? Oh. Goosebumps, Michael. Goosebumps over here. I mean, you and I shared a fascination with it with a collection of French theorists back as undergraduates. At the same universities it happens at Brown in the late eighties.

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