Obfuscatory Philosophy as Intellectual Authoritarianism and Cowardice (repost)

Aloha from Kauai! Here's another snail for your enjoyment. Since I'm still on vacation, here’s a repost with edits from 2011 and from my 2019 book A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures . [giant African land snail, seen in southern Kauai] I've been told that Kant and Hegel were poor writers whose impenetrable prose style is incidental to their philosophy. I've also been told that…