Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 10:58:00 +1100 From: bpalmer-AT-pcug.org.au (Bryan Palmer) Subject: Re: ETHICS AND POST STRUCT. >Greg Coolidge: University of Calif., Riverside, gcoolidg-AT-wizard.ucr.edu <snip> >My claim is that Foucualt and other post- >structuralits are humanists of a sort, no matter how vehemently they deny >such a charge. This was the conclusion I was coming too. >You only need look at their political projects with care, >in order to locate the humanist core of their polical aspirations. D&P is about prison reform; TBoTC is about reforming medical practice; and so on... >They offer > humananisms devoid of humanity, where the subject theorized to populate the >social body is incapable of becoming the autonomous, self-determing being that the humanist inspired political project so obviously seeks. We posties are >truly deeply flawed and paradoxical humanists. I'm not claiming originality >here. I'd be interested in your source referneces. > I am only suggesting that we post-structuralists quit fooling >ourselves into believing that we are radically ant-liberal and anti- >humanist. We are no such thing. We reject much of liberalism, and much of >the various humanisms that can be found, but we share many of the core values >belonging to both. We need to carefully take stock of our political values, >those we would be unwilling to give up, to embrace them, rather than contin- >uing to parrot the stale rhetoric of anti-humanism. We are not fooling >anybody. YES! _______________________________________________________________ Bryan Palmer bpalmer-AT-pcug.org.au Canberra - Australia's National Capital ------------------
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