From: ColinNGordon-AT-aol.com
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 01:41:10 EDT
Subject: Re: preface to HF


 
 

It says a little more than that, and implies more than it says. He says it  
is impossible and 
undesirable for an author to try to control the reception and effects of a  
book.
The unsaid but obvious reason for saying this, for his readers  then, was 
that things had happened between 1961 and 1972, such as  antipsychiatry and May 
68, and Histoire de la Folie had become a reference used  on both sides of 
various battles. I think one could infer that he thought the  earlier presentation 
had been designed for a different context and had found  that some its 
explanation of his project had proved liable to  misinterpretation, notably by 
Derrida.
 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 08/09/04 04:06:04 GMT Daylight Time,  
ew407-AT-freenet.carleton.ca writes:

In his  1972 short preface, Foucault only says that the editor asked him to
write a  new preface, but he declined because the words of his book should
stand for  themselves.
He did not give a reason for withdrawing the previous  preface.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Turner"  <k.turner-AT-lancaster.ac.uk>
To: "Foucault List"  <foucault-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07,  2004 2:35 PM
Subject: preface to HF


> Just got my hands on a  copy of the English translation to the first
> preface to "Historie de  la folie."
> It makes for very interesting reading; specifically with  regard to the
> directions foucault's writing took.
>
> My  questions is: does anybody know why foucault withdrew it?
> I cannot see  any obvious problem with it, and was curious as to why it was
> taken  out of the 1972 edition.
>
> regards - k
>
> --  
> Kevin Turner
> Dept. of Sociology
> Cartmel  College
> Lancaster University
> Lancaster
> LA1  4YL
>
> (01524) 594508
>






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