I was at a talk being given by Quentin Skinner today. I had a chuckle to myself when at the end of his response to the other panellists, he declared, "Down with Althusser, up with Marx!"
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ok phew haha I was worried you'd never heard of him, he's more or less the originator of what's sometimes (contentiously) called the 'Cambridge School' of intellectual history whose contextualist methodology is still very popular https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_School_(intellectual_history)
But also mind that French research is very French-centred, just as Anglophone research is Anglo-centred (maybe an even worse case than the former tbh). I've met people at UoE who had never heard of Bourdieu and I was likewise quite shocked, but I'm convinced this stems from this entrenched thing.
People having never heard of Bourdieu is *wild*, but I think that also just comes down to anglophone analytic philosophers largely being allergic to research happening in any other languages, and Edinburgh is particularly bad for this
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