Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 17:05:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "Robert L. Behrens" <rbehrens-AT-email.SJSU.EDU> Subject: Re: Foucault vs. Chomsky Nice quote Sam! On Sat, 5 Oct 1996, Samuel A. Chambers wrote: > Responding to the message of <961005000826_202489347-AT-emout12.mail.aol.com> > from foucault-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU: > > > > actually, i believe foucault denied the post-structuralist label. he said he > > didn't know what it was exactly-what it meant > > > > . > > To be even more precise, Foucault did speak a little about post-structuralism > but only in a very narrow way (as a certain situating of structuralism by later > thinkers) and only as a response to a direct question on the topic. With > respect to postmodernity--and I think this point is crucial given how easily so > many commentators on Foucault call him a post-modernist--he said the following: > "What are we calling postmodernity? I am not up to date." > > All of this is from the "Critical Theory/Intellectual History" interview, which > is in the Kelly volume (among many others). > > Sam Chambers > >
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