Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 22:04:27 -0400 (EDT) From: "M.A. King" <kingma-AT-mcmail.CIS.McMaster.CA> Subject: Re: Capitalist power is not possessed. On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Doug Henwood wrote: > I was away for the weekend, and I'm just catching up - so I have no idea > where this thread went, but I've been struck on this list by the > predominant hagiographic tone, very much like that seen among orthodox > Marxists - the same scriptural, catechistic tendencies. Is this true of any > single-figure effort? It was true of the Wallace Stevens society when I > used to follow it. Well, I think the main function of this list tends to be exegesis--I think that's what this kind of forum is best suited for, anyway, because critical debates tend too easily to get sidetracked (though, for a counterexample, see the Habermas list, especially the archives from last winter). I think most people hang around here to try to get a better understanding of Foucault, so of course there's going to be a fair bit of chapter-and-verse quoting. It's easy to criticize; it's more difficult to understand. I might seem like a doctrinaire Foucauldian to you, here; to certain folks on the Habermas list, I might seem like a doctrinaire Habermasian. I just want to push both of them as far as they'll go, see how much I can get out of them. And now I can see it's the same with you and Yoshie and Marx, and you're not the doctrinaire Marxists it would be all too easy to peg you as ;)--the type who would say nothing about Foucault except how he was trumped by Marx, or how he suffers for a lack of Marx. Matthew ----Matthew A. King------Department of Philosophy------McMaster University---- "The border is often narrow between a permanent temptation to commit suicide and the birth of a certain form of political consciousness." -----------------------------(Michel Foucault)--------------------------------
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