Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 21:57:25 +1100
From: bpalmer-AT-pcug.org.au (Bryan Palmer)
Subject: Re: Poststructualism, ethics and values



>Bryan:
>
>I think it may be a little more complicated than this...  I hear an over-easy 
>dichotomy being assumed between theory and practice. Those you have
described as 
>'"purist" philosophers/theorists" are not necessarily divorced from the
political 
>arena. It's only that politics has gone through a redefinition process in this 
>post-almost-everything world, and this is a *good* thing.  Once the
unproblematic 
>assumptions that ground our notions of politics are uncovered and
problematized, 
>it is necessary that our notions of poltics be updated, refashioned. Ethics 
>demands it, does it not?

Touche!

> It is not that Foucault and D&G are apolitical but that 
>they are political other/wise, political in an/other way.  That you don't 
>recognize this politics of an/other kind doesn't suggest that it isn't 
>significant and operating.  As lyotard says, "it is happening."  

I have no problems with the statement that this is an otherwise politics.
My struggle is what to do with the realm of policy development and politics
in which I work.


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Bryan Palmer
bpalmer-AT-pcug.org.au
Canberra - Australia's National Capital


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