File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_2000/foucault.0009, message 92


From: "Dan Fincke" <thegreatfandincke-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: what about us
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 13:46:47 EDT


I agree that a manifesto would be a mistaken approach.  I also think that it 
would rigidify things so much as to leave the movement utterly vulnerable to 
being reduced to stupid rally cries.  But I would not say "woopy-doo" to the 
notion of pressing, not politically but individually, for an ethic of 
respect for difference both in arguments and in relationships between 
persons and nations, etc.  This newly evolved version of the Western liberal 
ethic is more important than any momentary political or intellectual agenda 
because, if effective in taking root in more and more people's hearts, it 
will be the deciding factor of what makes up the heart of political and 
intellectual agendas in the future.  Will they be fascist or will they be 
friendly depends on the heart open to differences more than on any specific 
goals.

Dan Fincke
graduate student
Fordham University


----Original Message Follows----
From: Doug Stokes <dstokes14-AT-hotmail.com>
Reply-To: foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
To: foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
Subject: Re: what about us
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 08:48:24 GMT

I think postmodernism is utterly incapable of  producing any kind of
manifesto save a call for a respect for difference and a retreat into a
liberal navel gazing concerned with changing our ethics. Woopy - doo. Long
live the revolution.

Doug.


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