From: sbinkley-AT-pipeline.com Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 03:47:25 GMT Subject: Re: _History of Sexuality_ Vol. 1-3 & Racism On Wed, Jul 24, 1996 8:24:02 PM, chloe sekouri wrote: >Someone want to narrow it down? Suggest related topics? Etc etc? >What about a genreal discusssion of the absence of "race" (whatever that is) >in the writings of Foucault and other French (read: former colonial power) >theorists? Someone? Anyone? Hmmmm... this is an odd card to play..... I'm not sure the issue of race emerges in Hist of Sex at all, though it would not be difficult to explain this omission by considering race as an issue aside from Foucault's focus, which was the emergence of sexuality in the European context (at least in hist sex I). However, it would be interesting see how he might have dealt with the question. Clearly the eugenics thesis (of potential degeneracy to more primitive types, as described by Lombroso and others) and the darwinian thesis ( of the eminent savage within) bear some relation to eachother. Most importantly, they established the groundwork for the Freudian thesis, which sees a primordial (primitive) sexual drive sublimated to a civilizing psyche. In either case, the presence of the savage at the periphery is of key importance. The repressive hypothesis embraces all these moments. Perhaps it is possible to say that European colonialism is the repressive hypothesis projected onto a global field. Does this sketch offer a point of departure for futher questions? sb
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