File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_2000/foucault.0011, message 13


From: Vunch-AT-aol.com
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 20:04:35 EST
Subject: Re: Foucault/Frankfurt School quote


In a message dated 11/5/00 3:15:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
stuart.elden-AT-clara.co.uk writes:

> He remarks that the
>  Frankfurt school was not mentioned by his teachers. The interviewer thinks
>  this astonishing, and Foucault goes on to remark that it raises interesting
>  issues about how related schools of thought can be so apart (he means his
>  intellectual upbringing in French history of science, i.e. Canguilhem and
>  Bachelard above all).

Well, I searched for the quote and haven't found it yet!  But, I clearly 
recall Foucault stating that he would have liked to have been able to read 
and study the Critical Theory for ever! but that he had to work on other 
things.  If anyone knows it would be  Thomas McCarthy or Axel Honneth.  
Honneth adds a footnote #28 of Chapter 4
in his 'Critique of Power,' 1991, about Foucault's work as a continuation of 
Adorno's philosophy of history. If Foucault is familiar enough with Reich to 
form the basis of History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, 1976, then obviously he is 
familiar with Marcuse, and the short jump to Adorno is easy.  I have read a 
quote in which Foucault stated he enjoyed reading the Frankfurt Critical 
Theorists a great deal and that he wold have become one or like them, but 
that he other things to do. I will continue to look for that quote!

Vunch

   

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