File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_1996/96-10-21.153, message 160


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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