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From: "Stuart Elden" <stuartelden-AT-btconnect.com>
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?RE:_actualit=E9?=
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 15:02:03 -0000


This is my translation of a passage with this term in it

I consider myself as a journalist, insofar as what interests me is the
present [l'actualiti]... Philosophy, until Nietzsche, had eternity for its
raison d'jtre. The first philosopher-journalist was Nietzsche. He introduced
the today [l'aujourd'hui] into the field of philosophy. Before, the
philosopher knew time and eternity, but Nietzsche was obsessed by the
present [l'actualiti]... If we want to be masters of our future we must pose
fundamentally the question of the today. That is why, for me, philosophy is
a type of radical journalism (Dits et ecrits, Four Volume edition, II, 434).

Stuart


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-foucault-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
[mailto:owner-foucault-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU]On Behalf Of Kevin
Turner
Sent: 06 November 2004 14:34
To: foucault-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject: RE: actualiti


So, it could mean something like "present reality" ?
K

I haven't listened to the lecture, but one alternate meaning of actualiti
which comes to mind is "news," or "current events."  The Quebec newspaper
L'actualiti is an example.

Margaret Robinson
Toronto

http://www3.sympatico.ca/moogie.robinson/index.html

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