From: "Tai-Won Kim" <ktaiwon-AT-ufl.edu>
Subject: Re: Was Foucault a nihilist?
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 23:30:04 -0500



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From: Darren Smith <darren.smith-AT-unsw.edu.au>
To: foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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Date: Thursday, January 07, 1999 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: Was Foucault a nihilist?


>In other words, according
>to Foucault's understandings, a social worker cannot work with people in
>need because s/he does not understand their "real story". A lawyer cannot
>represent their clients and produce an outcome favourable for them because
>s/he doesn't undersand their real story. An organisation cannot pursue a
>cause on behalf of a group of people (eg women/men, children, eethnic
>groups) because it cannot really understand their "stories". In fact, it
>would be impossible to so anything.


huh???? duh!!!

where did foucault say such things???