From: "John S. Ransom" <dickinson-AT-alinet.it>
Subject: F and the "tool"
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 19:50:13 +0100


See, for instance, _The Foucault Reader_, pp. 349-350 for Foucault's use of
the "tool" metaphor.

He talks about theory as a toolkit directly in the interview "Power and
Strategies" in _Power/Knowledge_, p. 145.

--John


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Data: Sunday, January 17, 1999 5:39 PM
Oggetto: RE: Adorno's influence in Foucault


>Bob asked:
>>
>>Where does Foucault say this, or for that mattter Wittgenstein?
>>
>>Thanks :)
>>
>>>About the links between Foucault and Wittgenstein (there are many,
>specially
>>>with the second Wittgenstein), I remember that Foucault took from
>>>Wittgenstein the metaphore of the box of tools, when he says that anyone
>>>can take his concepts as if they were tools, and use them without
thinking
>>>who created them.
>>>
>
>
>Both ideas are very well known in Foucault4s and in Wittgensteins writings.
>The metaphor of Wittgenstein is in Philosophical Investigations. The one of
>Foucault probably is in What is an author?, or perhaps -I4m not sure- in
Les
>mots et les choses.
>
>Ana
>
>