Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:01:37 EDT
Subject: Re: Structural Marxism


In a message dated 09/16/1999 8:59:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
joe.cronin-AT-thomasmore.edu writes:

> Was Foucault a structural Marxist?  I agrue that he was.  
>  I completed a dissertation on a structural Marxist reading of Foucault's 
> work,
>  and I am in the process of preparing it for publication.  Is anyone out 
> there
>  interested in discussing the Bachelard-Canguilhem- Althusserian influence 
on
>  Foucualt?  in discussing the manner in which Foucault adopts some 
> Nietzschean
>  appoaches?  in discussing particular texts, especially MC, OT, AK, DP, 
K/P, 
> or
>  HS v.1?

I thought that Foucault rejected the possibility of meaningfulness, or of a 
meaningful
life.  Foucault critiqued Bataille in MC as an attempt to recover meaningful 
life.
Wouldn't this theme oppose a structural Marxist perspective.  

Fred Welfare