File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_1997/97-04-15.040, message 98


Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 10:10:26 +0100
From: ccw94-AT-aber.ac.uk (COLIN WIGHT)
Subject: Re: (no subject)


Ammar wrote:

>As has been already mentioned F. is opposed to the concept of 
>human nature where it is seen as something that "has been concealed,
>alienated or imprisoned in and by mechanisms of repression".

This is where Doug's point from long ago gets its force. For this reading of
Foucault totally neglects Foucault#s claim that his whole project has be to
examine the way human beings are made subjects. An implicit, or explicit
humanism, dare I suggest? Albeit unthematised. 


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

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