From: ccw94-AT-aber.ac.uk Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 09:40:32 +0100 Subject: Re: Events and historical change Greg provides a classic example of the implicit positivism in Foucualt. > > >Events do indeed have 'origins' for Foucualt, but such origins are caused by >such a diverse confluence of social factors that Foucualt finds the term >causality quite problematic. Causality brings to mind the readily > identifiable source of a complex historical event (such as the development of the prison), where the causal elements are believed to exhaust, or at least >mostly explain, the origin of an event. This is pure David Hume. But is it an acurate account of causation? -------------------------------------------------------- "What I try to achieve is the history of the relations which thought maintains with truth; the history of thought insofar as it is the thought of truth. All those who say truth does not exist for me are simple minded." (Foucault) Colin Wight Department of International Politics University of Wales, Aberystwyth Aberystwyth SY23 3DA --------------------------------------------------------
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