From: "Gabriel Ash" <Gabriel.Ash.1-AT-nd.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 96 23:28:09 
Subject: Re: The Nature of Power.


On Mon, 19 Aug 1996 08:35:57 +0000, malcolmt-AT-eznet.ca wrote:
>
>I guess my point is that it's perhaps not necessary to choose between 
>one and the other - i.e. whether Foucault analyses social formations 
>or formations of the social. Approaching Foucault from one 
>perspective permits observations not possible from the other, and 
>vice versa. So perhaps it's more a question of "both/and" rather than 
>"either/or".
>
>Hmm. Any thoughts?

I guess this is just right. And it applies more generally. Perhaps an earlier 
and important example of this kind of thing-process duality is Durkheim's 
'social fact' which is 'fait social' - both a fact and a past perfect of the verb 
to do. that which has been done.
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Gabriel Ash
Notre-Dame
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