Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:59:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Matthew King <making-AT-yorku.ca>
Subject: re: commentary is a minstral show


On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Michael Roberts wrote:

> If you think that history
> ought to be a creation myth for our time commentary on the past is
> fine. If you want to understand not the present but the past,
> commentary is useless.

And if you want to do the history of the present, not creation myth but
genealogy, Nietzschean effective history, then commentary is ... ?
Whatever it is, it isn't a *violation* of the past.  Foucault is not an
antiquarian--nor is he a hermeneuticist.

Matthew

 ---Matthew A. King---Department of Philosophy---York University, Toronto---
  "Yes - Kilgore Trout is back again.  He could not make it on the outside.
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 -----------------------------(Kurt Vonnegut)-------------------------------