File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_1996/f_Jan1.96, message 48


Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 20:08:58 -0500 (EST)
From: ANTOINE GOULEM <goua-AT-alcor.concordia.ca>
Subject: Re: Re[2]: ethics and poststructuralism




On Thu, 18 Jan 1996, Joe Cronin wrote:

>           Why must we continue to link questions cocnenring
>           humanism/anti-humanism in Foucault's work with that
>           obscurantist Derrida?  Is anyone out there interested in
>           Foucault's link to Marx?  Deconstructionism is a stillborn,
>           anti-science - it has nothing to say about subjectivity,
>           ethics, praxis, or critique.  Isn't ther a Marxian Foucault
>           out there?
> 
Hey Joe, where you going with that book in your hand?
I would love to hear, read I guess, a good accountof Foucault's 
relaitonship to Marx.  I'm pretty sure that a lot of the anti-Marxist 
sounding things he wrote and said have smoething, a lot, to do with the 
specifics of the local olitical scence he was invloved in.  When he was 
yelling about Marxists, he had individual, real people in mind, people 
who I suspect were getting in his face.  I'm sure everyone on this list 
knows it, but in France, at least back then, Marxism was not considered 
as either inherently evil, or inherently stupid.  A few days ago one of 
our friends on this list, Jean-Michel Olives? (I'm very sorry for not 
remembering your name) gave us one spin on the context into which his 
early work was read and received. Foucault as a choice between the 
competing dogmas of the Pope or Stalin. But Joe, you have to help me out. 
Beyond the context which makes sense out of him resisting a certain brand 
of Marxism, and certain aspects of it, what does he get out of the 
marxist analysis of capital, out of the inverting of Hegel's inversion of 
the world, etc.?
Antoine Goulem

   

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