Date: Wed, 19 Oct 94 12:19:58 CST From: Walt Stein <walt-AT-epsilon.rhesys.mb.ca> To: foucault-AT-world.std.com Subject: Re: Foucault and 'the starving millions' In Article <510BA44A1-AT-its.dundee.ac.uk> k.j.mcphail-AT-dundee.ac.uk writes: > trivialise Foucaults and Derrias fictions. It is very difficult to > tell someone who has witnessed the 'reality' of genocide that 'world > itself is nothing other than art', and that 'there is no true world.' > Is Foucault really working at such a superficial level? What is the > scope and context of Foucaults work? Since I am sure that this query will probably produce a great deal of replies, I wish only to point you in an interesting direction. Quite coincidentally, I was recently directed by another member of the group to the volume, Michel Foucault, Philosophe, and--just last night--happened to be reading the essay by James Bernauer, entitled (quite relevantly) "Beyond Life and Death. On Foucault's post-Aushwitz ethic". I don't know that I agree with Bernauer on many of his points, but a quick read of this essay and its rejoinders reminds us of what someone (Frank Lettrichia or Jameson(sic!), I think) said elsewhere of Foucault---that it is impossible to miss the white hot rage in his texts. Nor, from a reading of the David Macey bio, the white hot rage in his lived experience. Suggest you have a look at the essay. I think I detect such rage in Derrida too....although, admittedly, maybe not so much in some of his acolytes. Yours, Walt
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