From: "David McInerney" <davidmci67-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: hey what is up with this list
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 13:16:55 +0930


Although not directly on Foucault there is much in Warren Montag's account
of Spinoza's reading of Scripture (in Montag's _Bodies, Masses, Power_) on
the method of reading that Foucault seems to employ in his writings (at
least, as of AK and later) that is similar to that of Althusser (minus the
Marxist bits).  Montag also wrote an essay on the similarities of Althusser
and Foucault on the materiality of discourse that appeared in  a special
issue of _Yale French Studies_ on Althusser, Macherey and Balibar back in
1995.  I hope this reference provides a productive "theoretical detour" as
Althusser would say.  The last chapter of Montag's book, by the way, would
of some interest to those interested in the empiricists Hobbes and Locke
(and their various progeny, e.g. Hume, Hartley, and James Mill).

DM


----- Original Message -----
From: "sam binkley" <sbinkley-AT-thing.net>
To: <foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 1:57 AM
Subject: Re: hey what is up with this list


> Okay, I'll take a shot
>
> I've been on this list for several years (slipping into long periods of
> inaction), and I'm writing a dissertation which uses Foucault;s later
writing
> on ethics and the care of the self. In short, I'm writing a
> historical-sociology of countercultural consumer texts in the late 60's
and
> 70's (a genre I call "aquarian consumerism") which described a mode of
> ethical life premised on holistic, ecological principles.  These texts,
like
> those of the Ancient ethical practitioners Foucault analyses, wove a
culture
> of ethical self cultivation through exhortation and advice.
>
> My question for the list is: can anyone recommend a secondary text on
> Foucault's later ethical writings which relates his interpretive method to
> more standard interpretive approaches to the study of texts.
Specifically,
> how do theorists (literary, ethnograhic...?) understand narrative texts
which
> set the reader in an ethical relation to himself? Is there a "reader" in
this
> sense?
>
> Hopefully this will spice things up a bit!
>
> thanks
>
> sb
>
> Jeremiah Luna wrote:
>
> > Hey whats up, no one has written anything in over a few weeks, are we
> > foucaltians so weak on energy? Who is on this list anyway. how many
people
> > and why?
> >
> > every once in a while we get so topic going, but then it seems like no
one
> > has the energy to really get into things.
> >
> > Jeremiah Luna
>
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