Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 13:01:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim-AT-panix.com> To: foucault-AT-world.std.com Cc: steven.meinking-AT-m.cc.utah.edu, Foucault List <foucault-AT-world.std.com>, Subject: Re: Nazis In relation to Feyerabend, I also think we should be careful here. There is a tendency to dismiss for example the work of Joseph Beuys on the same ground, and I find, frankly, the attacks a while ago (in RL not on any list) on Paul deMan equally suspect - I too wrote things at 20 I wouldn't want to see in print now. There is a difference between naive and/or coerced behavior when very young and mature work, and it's never a straight-forward situation of cause and effect. These sorts of attacks can only lead to a relatively right-wing closure on, say, post-structural thought in general. Issues of anti-semitism, by the way, are equally difficult to deal with - what do we "do" with Blanchot, Bataille, Sartre's misguided book on anti- semitism, Lacan - not to mention Pound, Eliot, H.G.Wells, Dostoevsky? For me, Heidegger _does_ seem damaged, but cleaning the slate (which should be on some level) would also mean wiping out a lot of 19th-20th century thinkers. This is troubling no matter how you cut it. Alan
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