Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 21:38:25 -0600 From: Walt Stein <stein-AT-io.uwinnipeg.ca> Subject: Re: Foucault and AIDS Actually, the signature line was mine, although it seems to have gotten attached to another poster...for which I am sorry. And, yes, it is Camille Paglia, quoting from one of her columns in Salon Online. Perhaps you should not avoid her writings like the plague. She consistently writes of Foucault as if he were the single most pernicious writer/thinker of the century, which figures, since she is a splendid inheritor of the gender-essentialist critics of the fifties like Norman O. Brown. Why do I read her and enjoy her so much, even while I consider Foucault's work the most fruitful and valuable I have read? Well..wasn't it Foucault who said that we cannot escape Hegel? I mean, if you looked up antithesis in a Foucault dictionary, you'd most likely find a picture of Camille Paglia. >P.S. Paglia probably refers to Camille Paglia. I avoid her writings >like the plague, but perhaps shouldn't. As for her remark on Clinton it >is funny but fails to meet the challenge of Clinton's Alzumenschliches >behavior. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Clinton's crimes are incestuous: He makes the whole world his family and then seduces and pollutes it, person by person"--Paglia
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