From: "Kevin Turner" <k_turner-AT-tiscali.co.uk> Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?actualit=E9?= Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 13:46:22 -0000 I have been listening to the lecture on ‘The Culture of the Self,’ that Foucault presented at Berkeley Language Centre, 12 April 1983: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Speech/VideoTest/audiofiles.html In this lecture, and elsewhere, Foucault uses the term actualité, and I was wondering if this term has the same kind of connotations as the English word "actuality," or whether there was some meaning specific to the French that is not captured by, and thus not translatable into, English. In addition, I was wondering whether what Foucault is trying to capture via the term actualité, is something akin to what Heidegger was trying to get at with his notion of Being? Regards - Kevin. --- This message is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.788 / Virus Database: 533 - Release Date: 01/11/2004
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