Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 10:28:17 +0000
From: ccw94-AT-aber.ac.uk (Colin Wight)
Subject: Re: foucault and sokal


Without wanting to take sides on Foucault/Sokal, in my discipline
(International Politics) the end point that Blaine sees Foucault heading
towards has been the dominant way of the world (so it is claimed) for
centuries. Normally attributed to Hobbes and Machiavelli but with a lineage
that stretches back at least to Thucydides. And Foucault's point about
politics being war by other means is simply a mutation of Clausewitz. We
call this Realism and it has being practiced by Nixon, Kissinger et.al for
years and most brilliantly expounded by Hans Morgenthau. Is this really
where F leaves us?



Thanks,


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Colin Wight
Department of International Politics
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth
SY23 3DA

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