Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:46:52 +0100
From: newidder <N.E.Widder-AT-exeter.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Il faut defendre Foucault


Yes, we can.  The words are pretty clear.

>===== Original Message From foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ====>We can not ensure if he would not:)
>--- newidder <N.E.Widder-AT-exeter.ac.uk> wrote:
>> >===== 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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University of Exeter
Department of Politics
Amory Building
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United Kingdom
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