From: "" <mthrond-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: Re: sexual ethics Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:52:36 PST Have you looked at Christopher Lasch's Culture of Narcissism? Even if it isn't authoritative (either from a Marxist or Freudian standpoint), strictly historical, or Foucauldian (although Lasch, I hear, was for a time quite interested in F.) it's a funny and pithy slash through the "self-help" mentality. But if you read it, also catch Richard Hofstadter's chapter in The American Political Tradition on the Self-Help Ideology of Abraham Lincoln. Liberation, you say? I assume you are familiar with N.O. Brown and Marcuse--neither of whom, in my book, employed the term as loosely as one must to call those overpriced rags "liberating." Happy hunting! >From owner-foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Thu Feb 18 09:44:18 1999 >Received: from [128.143.200.198] by hotmail.com (1.1) with SMTP id MHotMailB8959C691DFBCD1017091808FC8C6075E0; Thu Feb 18 09:44:18 1999 >Received: (from domo-AT-localhost) by lists.village.virginia.edu (8.8.5/8.6.6) id LAA17261 for foucault-outgoing; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 11:55:41 -0500 >X-Authentication-Warning: lists.village.virginia.edu: domo set sender to owner-foucault-AT-localhost using -f >Received: from mail9.svr.pol.co.uk (mail9.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.22]) by lists.village.virginia.edu (8.8.5/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA27238 for <foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 11:55:31 -0500 >Received: from modem-22.titanium.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.10.150] helo=z5o4h1) > by mail9.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 2.10 #1) > id 10DWjZ-0005Kp-00 > for foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:55:29 +0000 >Message-ID: <025501be5b61$0a6fb180$2846883e-AT-z5o4h1> >From: "Rebecca Luckhurst" <rebecca-AT-rluckhurst.freeserve.co.uk> >To: <foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu> >Subject: sexual ethics >Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:53:10 -0000 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0153_01BE5B5F.2AA91F60" >X-Priority: 3 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 >Sender: owner-foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu > >Okay, okay! I'll post something! > >I wonder if anyone out there can recommend some reading for me. I'm >based in the UK reading for a PhD, and I'm looking at Foucault's work on >sexual ethics. I shall be using it to look at present day 'self-help' >texts (eg Men are From Mars etc) I want to see what kind of ethics >these books promote, and what kind of subject they are aiming to >produce. I want to try to avoid a simplistic dismissal of them as being >either purely subjugating discourses or symptomatic of the 'Californian >cult of the self' about which Foucault was so sniffy. I also want to >avoid an uncritical celebration of their liberatory potential, as >proposed by some other scholars - I shall mention no names!! > >It seems to me that these texts must tell us something our culture >because they are so popular and sell in such huge numbers - and here in >the UK they have, in many instances, entered into common parlance (I >expect it's the same elsewhere). > > >Can anyone suggest either: > a.. any specific sections of Foucault's work I should look at >(besides the History of Sex trilogy), or > b.. any particularly interesting/popular self-help books (especially >those about relationships), or > c.. the work of any other theorists/scholars which might be >relevant? > >I would really appreciate any suggerstions, advice or comments. >Thanks for helping. > >Rebecca. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: anand-bhatt <anand.bhatt-AT-vsnl.com> >To: 'foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu' ><foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu> >Date: 18 February 1999 09:50 >Subject: RE: ??? > > >>The list is in sleepy time they tell me and it will liven up once >somebody posts something. So post something. >> > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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