File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_1998/foucault.9809, message 47


Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 18:01:05 +1200
From: Nesta <na.devine-AT-auckland.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: Foucauldian examinations of The Market


Malgosia, 

In relation to your question , <do you think...that science evinces any 
sort of application of the thought of any 19th century German 
philopher>, Barry Smith, 'Aristotle, Menger, Mises' in the Annual 
supplement to vol 22, History of political economy, ed Bruce Caldwell, 
1990 - argues that Aristotle is the background to German sciences of all 
kinds, so taken for granted that he is not mentioned or questioned. The 
legacy of this thinking for contemporary science is probably through 
Popper.  It would be hard to argue that neither Aristotle nor Popper had 
had an effect on science. 

It might be that the kind of critique Wynship mentions is a kind of 
reaction to Aristotelean science, which because of the popular alliance 
between 'common sense' and teleological views of technology, is very 
hard to make a dint in. 

Wynship, would you not think that Foucault had had some effect upon 
psychiatry?  He tends not to take on the 'hard' sciences: I vaguely 
remember reading a discussion of that phenomenon in a biography - 
perhaps a notion that that was Canguilhem's patch??

Nesta

   

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