File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_1997/foucault.9706, message 14


Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 19:56:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Ransom <ransom-AT-dickinson.edu>
Subject: will to power


On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Flannon Jackson wrote:

> Actually its not mystical at all but fairly traditional.  Provided that 
> tradition is understood as an implicaiton of inter-textuality.  Its not 
> even necessary to go so far as to try and formulate a geneological 
> relatationwhip that would in some way situate Foucualt within a set of 
> specific discursive practices because what we have here is a matter of 
> straight intellectual history.  But then again, perhaps Lithoi is not 
> such a pedant as has been supposed.
> 
> Such musings, I suppose, will have to be left for another time.  For the 
> moment lets try another riddle:  the will to power is not a willing _for_ 
> power.
> 
> Flannon
> 

Because will to power serves life?

--John


   

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