File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_1997/97-04-15.040, message 71


Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 21:07:09 +1000
From: c.holmes-AT-nepean.uws.edu.au (Colin Holmes)
Subject: Re: humanism


>Colin wrote:
>
>> But it seems you do have some idea of Doug's usage of the term, and if
>> Foucault rejects this usage what then provides the moral grounds for acting.
>> I mean, why not 'prefer the destruction of the world to my little finger',
>> as one wag once put it? (Hume actually).


Malgosia replied:

>Ah, the "hint hint nudge nudge know what I mean" approach to philosophy!
>I'll let Doug speak for his own usage.  I also have no idea if Foucault
>"rejects" this usage, I just suspect that he uses the term differently
>than Doug does.
>
>I think, BTW, that we need a FAQ for this list.  The list is constantly
>answering (or refusing to answer for the umptieth time) the same questions
>from people who get on the list because they heard some scandalizing
>tidbit about "pomo" and want to have some fun.  Or maybe we need a
>"foucault-intro" list, manned by a rotating team of good-willed people who
>are willing to field these kinds of questions.  Or maybe this _is_ the
>foucault-intro list and what we need is a new non-intro list.

Both responses sound like elitist crap to me. If you don't want to answer
perfectly legitimate questions because they are too 'basic' to waste your
precious IQ on then simply don't respond - leave it to those with the time,
patience and good will - but don't put people down!

Colin

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