From: "Ferda Keskin" <keskinf-AT-boun.edu.tr> Subject: RE: Reason and State Power Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 22:31:25 +0300 Dear Stuart, Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, the piece I am looking for is not in the Power volume. I do have the French versions, but I need the original English version to quote it in a piece I am writing. I am pretty sure that the original is in English, because the version in Dits et ecrits is a translation (by F. Durand-Bogaert). The part I am interested in and that I want to quote is actually just a couple of sentences where Foucault talks about the relationship between individuality, identity and subjectivity, and gives a hint about what he understands by these terms. I guess I'll just have to quote the French version. Thanks again. Ferda -----Original Message----- From: owner-foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu [mailto:owner-foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu]On Behalf Of Stuart Elden Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 3:02 PM To: foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Subject: Re: Reason and State Power Dear Ferda I don't have a copy of the Essential Works Power volume, so I can't say if they're in there, but I'm pretty sure they're not elsewhere in Foucault's work. Do you need the English originals, or would the French do? (It wasn't entirely clear from the mail if you had access to the French, or if did and you still needed the English) The French versions are translations, and it isn't clear if the interview was originally in English, or translated from (a now missing) French version. They are two short interviews, clearly based on one initial conversation, but both contain material that the other does not. There are some interesting issues raised, including Foucault's view of his own books, and a good discussion of how his work relates to someone like Erving Goffman. Foucault suggests Goffman is only interested in the Asylum or prison _as_ an asylum or prison, whereas Foucault examines them in order to get at a deeper problematic, such as rationalities of power. Otherwise they seem fairly minor pieces. Stuart
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