The Resume

(October 4, 1931-June 8, 2007)
Born in New York City, New York
Attended University of Chicago (1946-1952)
Attended Yale (1952-1956)
Taught at Wellesley College (1958-1961), Princeton University (1961-1982), University of Virginia (1982-1997), and Stanford University (1997-)
Wrote ‘The Linguistic Turn’ (1967), ‘Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature’ (1979), ‘Contingency, irony, and solidarity’ (1989), ‘Essays on Heidegger and Others: Philosophical Papers’ (1991), ‘Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers’ (1998), and ‘Achieving our Country’ (1998)
Coined the term ‘ironism’, which is used to describe a person who always doubts about the ideas he or she always uses, thinks that the same ideas won’t eliminate any doubts, and thinks the same ideas again are more associated with a power rather than one self

Why he might be annoying:

He was a postmodernist philosopher.
Early on, he was into Marxism.
He was enrolled at the University of Chicago a few days before his fifteenth birthday.
He said that science can’t depict the world.
He believed that sentences and beliefs are neither true nor false, but just useful.
He regarded fellow postmodernists like Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida as ‘ironists’.

Why he might not be annoying:

He outgrew the Marxist ideas he learned earlier.
Though a liberal, his ideas are criticized by left-wing politicians because they thought that he didn’t provide enough foundations for social justice.
He considered liberal democracy to be the best kind of government ever established for society.

Credit: Big Lenny

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Big Lenny's Profiles [Series 02]
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [October] (Ranked: 10041931)
• Cornel West Doesn’t Like Me
• Huge Eye Wear
• I am an Atheist
• I Attended University of Chicago
• I Attended Yale
• I Died in 2007 (Ranked: 75)
• I Have Pancreatic Cancer
• I Married in 1972
• Influenced by Friedrich Nietzche
• Look at Me, It's This Big
• Philosophers: 20th Century [1900-2000]
• Profiles 30001-30250 (Ranked: 30129)
• Silver Foxes [Gray and Don't Care]
• Teachers

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 114 Votes: 67.54% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 12 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 19 Votes: 47.37% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 24 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 14 Votes: 78.57% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 68 Votes: 66.18% Annoying