File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_1994/F-1, message 51


Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 17:23:38 GMT
From: KENNETH MCPHAIL <K.J.MCPHAIL-AT-dundee.ac.uk>
To: foucault-AT-world.std.com
Subject: Materialism and Spirituality


In a paper I was reading recently the author said,
       'There are a couple of sub-schools in this field (critical 
        accounting research, - I bet you didn't realise there was 
        such a thing) which appear to be more united in what they are not 
        than what they are.  The issue of materialism is one of the dividing 
        questions in this respect.  Some of the critical researchers base 
        their studies explicitly on materialistic philosophy but there are 
        also many, eg the Foucaultian researchers whose studies are overtly 
        non-materialistic.'
 
The reference to materialism relates to an earlier section of the 
paper where the author suggests that ,
         'Marx and Engles interpreted Hegels dialectics in a new way, 
          which resulted in dialectical materialism, a way of thought based on 
          the notion that the world is essentially material and not spiritual.'

Could anyone explain to we in what sence Foucault is 
'non-materialistic'?  Also, I know that to be non-materialistic does 
not  necessarily imply to be spiritual but is there any part of Foucaults 
phylosophy that could be regarded as 'spiritual.'?


KJM

   

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