From: "Stuart Elden" <Stuart.Elden-AT-clara.co.uk> Subject: Re: Foucault and Heidegger Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:55:34 -0000 I've posted most of this before at some point:- On Foucault and Heidegger, one of the principal sources is Hubert Dreyfus & Paul Rabinow, Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (though most of the references to Heidegger were removed just before publication, hence Foucault's rather puzzling endorsement). Dreyfus wrote an article on Being & Power in Timothy Armstrong (ed.) Michel Foucault Philosopher. See also Rabinow in the Cambridge Companion (ed Gutting) and his introduction to Essential Works I (which show why Dreyfus & Rabinow now disagree). Also useful is Allan Megill, Prophets of Extremity; Charles Scott, A Question of Ethics; Neil Levy, `The Prehistory of Archaeology: Foucault and Heidegger' _The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology_ May 1996; Michael Schwartz, "Critical Reproblemization: Foucault and the Task of Modern Philosophy", _Radical Philosophy_, No 91, Sept/Oct 1998. Heidegger wrote an enormous amount, and some of it shows the influence he had on Foucault. See, inter alia, Being and Time (1927), Nietzsche (1961), and the collection Basic Writings. I don't agree with Chiang's suggestion that "Foucault sometimes did fall into a Heideggerian circle, but he always made a conscious effort to break away". It's much more complicated than that, and is tied up in the debates about the role of Heidegger in French thought. Heidegger's Letter on Humanism (1947) allowed Foucault, Althusser, etc. etc. to break from the humanist, existentialist interpretation of Heidegger by Sartre, freeing them up to appropriate Heidegger in a number of ways. Heidegger is central to understanding Foucault. Best wishes Stuart
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