unpopular great philosophers

People go in and out of fashion in social circles, at Court, and in the Dean’s Office, so it is only to be expected that the same must happen with the history of philosophy.

For well over a century, Plato was out of fashion. To “reverse Plato” was the entry price for being one of the hepcats of continental though.

I discussed this issue early on in the history of the first doctorzamalek blog.

ADDENDUM: Somehow the rest of this post was eliminated without my realizing it. The rest of it, which I am now too lazy to reconstruct, said that Husserl and now Aristotle seem to have replaced Plato as the whipping boys of the continental philosophy avant garde.