Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 09:46:04 +0100 From: ccw94-AT-aber.ac.uk (COLIN WIGHT) Subject: Re: Adorno Screen Savers John wrote: >Part of what we're debating on the list is if Foucualt should be >criticized for allegedly failing to provide the kind of practical and >pragmatic advice to oppositionists that intellectuals are usually charged >with elaborating. No John, this is not my critique, my point is that some readings of Foucault make any notion of choice or action merely arbitrary. Also, i have argued that he does indeed provide advice, but that the advice is be politically "quiet", therein lies your true freedom. Also, I think that you have to contextualise Adorno's "resignation". I mean who wouldn't have felt helpless and depressed between 1939-45? But still, I am not going to defend Adorno's "resignation" anymore than I will defend Foucaultian "silence". Both simply retreat in the face of seemingly overwhelming forces. As i read most of the post-thingy approach to social theorising it displays a lack of intellectual nerve born out of the despair of, Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia, 1968 and Paris 1968 (sorry if any of the dates are wrong History is not my thing). Thanks, ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Colin Wight Department of International Politics University of Wales, Aberystwyth Aberystwyth SY23 3DA --------------------------------------------------------
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