From: "John S. Ransom" <dickinson-AT-alinet.it>
Subject: R: request help in tracking a reference
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:09:35 +0100


I don't have my Foucault books with me in Italy but the quotation below
sounds like something that might have been said in the debate/conversation
either with Chomsky or with the Maoist students, the one that is reproduced
near the beginning of Power/Knowledge. Wish I could be of more assistance.

--John
-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Ian Robert Douglas <Ian_Robert_Douglas-AT-Brown.edu>
A: foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu <foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Data: Thursday, March 11, 1999 10:01 AM
Oggetto: request help in tracking a reference


>Hi,
>   does anyone recognise this quotation of Foucault?  I cannot for the life
>of me remember where its from, and I lost the exact reference in a mountain
>of papers.  Any help _much_ appreciated.
>
>"It seems to me that the idea of justice in itself is an idea which in
>effect has been invented and put to work in different types of societies as
>an instrument of a certain political and economic power or as a weapon
>against that power ..  One can't .. put these notions forward to justify a
>fight which should .. overthrow the very fundaments of our society."  --
>Michel Foucault
>
>
>best wishes,
>ian
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