From: "Doug Stokes" <dstokes14-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: Re: eagleton Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 11:10:21 -0000 I have. It's a bit ranty in parts and is a general polemic against trends rather than specific thinkers but well worth the read. I would also recommend Callinicos's "Against Postmodernism". For a really good engagement with Foucault, Laclau & Mouffe etc try Rosemary Hennessey's "Materialist Feminism and the Politics of Discourse", its superb. Doug. >From: Nathan Goralnik <rhizome85-AT-home.com> >Reply-To: foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >To: Foucault <foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu> >Subject: eagleton >Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 04:57:33 -0700 > >Has anyone read Terry Eagleton's "Illusions of Postmodernism" ? Is it any >good? > >~Nate > >-- > >"Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it >offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, >unites, or re-unites; it cannot help but liberate and enslave. >Even before prescribing, suggesting a future, saying what must >be done, even before exhorting or merely sounding an alarm, >thought, at the level of its existence, in its very dawning, is >in itself an action--a perilous act." > -Michel Foucault > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
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