Date: Fri, 16 Sep 94 16:49:27 CST From: Walt Stein <walt-AT-epsilon.rhesys.mb.ca> To: foucault-AT-world.std.com Subject: Discourse (Recommended definition) Coincidentally with the recent request for a definition of discourse, I've just tripped over one that is, I think, pretty good. The introduction to Paul Bove's Mastering Discourse, a 1992 collection of his essays, has an excellent historical and technical definition of the term, as well as a brief resume of its history through successive waves of criticism up to and including poststructuralism. He also places Foucault, and Canguilhem quite effectively in the development of the contemporary use of the term. Especially because the volume's title is intentionally ambiguous--he means it in at least three senses of the term "mastering"---and because it is also a volume relatively critical of Derrida, deconstruction, Foucault and lots of other interesting things, I am impressed by his very intelligent, and unpolemical, introductory definition. Have any of you out there read the essay on Foucault and madness in this volume? What did you think of it? Yours, Walt
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