Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 09:16:55 -0500 (CDT)
From: Erik D Lindberg <edl-AT-csd.uwm.edu>
Subject: Re: Genealogy


On Fri, 11 Aug 1995, ANTOINE GOULEM wrote:

> In pointing to the link  (such as it might be) between deconstruction and 
> genealogy, I was led to think about Foucault's connection to Heidegger. 
> Does anyone know where I might read a bit more about that? Or while we 
> are at it, the difference between Heidegger and Derrida?
> 
This relationship does seem somewhat ignored, at least in the things I 
have read--especialy considering that Foucault said in a 1984 interview 
that "Of course.  Heidegger has been for me the essential philosopher" 
(Live 326).  You might check out Rabinow and Dreyfus in _Michel Foucault: 
Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics_.  Also, Nancy Fraser susses out 
the relationship briefly but very succinctly in several of her essays in 
_Unruly Practices_.  But there must be some more extensive studies 
somewhere out there.

Despite all the often stated problems with his book, Habermas 
captures a side of  
the relationship between Heidegger and Derrida in _The Philosophical 
Discourse of Modernity_.  In a reading un-favorable to Derrida (because 
of the close link he makes with a Heidegger--a little too close for 
comfort) Habermas suggests, in effect, that Derrida is Heidegger + 
structuralist linguistics.  I forget what connections he draws between 
Foucault and Heidegger, but I think he reads Derrida as the much worse 
Heideggerian of the two.


Erik D. Lindberg
Dept. of English and Comparative Lit.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI  53211
email: edl-AT-csd.uwm.edu


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