Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:48:45 +0100 From: newidder <N.E.Widder-AT-exeter.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Il faut defendre Foucault >===== Original Message From foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ====>Personally me, I am Bulgarian. First: The Balkans are >not "area" or "region". This is one of those matrix >like that of the nationalism, which the west >constructed and applied to us, and then claim it is a >definition they found in the nature of our existence. >Isn't that so much Foucauldian? Actually, it is rather un-Foucauldian. Foucault would never accept the idea that nationalism was somehow unilaterally imposed by "the West" on "everyone else." It is inconsistent with his idea of power relations. Your casual use of 'us' is also un-Foucauldian. Nathan Dr. Nathan Widder Lecturer in Political Theory University of Exeter Department of Politics Amory Building Rennes Drive Exeter EX4 4RJ United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1392 263 183 Fax: +44 (0)1392 263 305 http://www.ex.ac.uk/shipss/politics/staff/widder/
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