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Claude Roget: Philosopher or Fraud?
Was one of the most influential philosophers of our time an “audacious plagiarist”?
Works Discussed
Claude Roget: Montmartre Mountebank by Louis Bloch
Order Is Terror by Claude Roget
Literature and Vacuum by Claude Roget
“Uncommunicative Modalities In Roget’s Anti-Texts” by Maurice Duchamp
Words: First Tools of Capitalistic Oppression by Claude Roget
Stratagems of Corporate Enslavement by Claude Roget
Decapitation and Capitalism: A Play by Claude Roget
Louis Bloch’s critical biography Claude Roget: Montmartre Mountebank denounces one of the most influential philosophers of our time as an “audacious plagiarist.” Bloch’s argument that Roget’s books leave an “embarrassing stain” on contemporary philosophy has generated both moral outrage against and spirited defense for Roget’s intellectual legacy — the Post-Linguistic school of philosophy. Devoted students have recently posted the legendary unabridged first editions of Roget’s works — which many believe are loaded with plagiarized passages — on the Internet, fueling debate over the extent of Roget’s originality.
