File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_1997/lyotard.9712, message 42


From: "jon roffe" <i_mimesis-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: wittgenstein, lyotard, foucault
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 20:20:03 PST


Matt

>Have you read The Order of Things, from his so-called structuralist
>phase?  I'm thinking of reading it because I was told it is in some 
sense 
>a critique of Husserl, and I'm working on a big project on Husserl 
right

Yes, I've read it.  It's hard work, but sounds like it might be worth a 
look for you.  Foucault himself described it as his most tiresome book.  
However, I'm fairly suspicious about thinking of it as structuralism.  
The familiar labels that Foucault's work often gets called obscure the 
originality of what he was trying to achieve.  I guess this is an old 
point, but I often think of it as I read Foucault.  In terms of the book 
itself, it really works as a pair (at least I think) with The Archeology 
of Knowledge - it may not have been a structuralist period, but it was 
certainly a period of some kind!  If you want some good commentary on 
it, I found Foucault's Force of Flight (James Bernauer ?)good on this 
area of his work.

I know this is a Lyotard list, but could you give us a little taste of 
what you're working on re Husserl?  I don't know much about his work, 
but I do know that Schutz, a phenomenologist, has spawned a whole gang 
of phenomenological anthropologists.


>I'm reading Lyotard's work on Heidegger which is
>similar but different to the works of Lacoue-Labarthe and Derrida on
>Heidegger, and all of them rework or reask the questions of Heidegger's
>political decision of 1934 and his subsequent silence on the matter. 
>

Has anyone else read this one?  Matt, and whoever, I would be interested 
in thoughts on it - and, incidentally, what you thought of the Derrida 
one.

Best wishes
Jon

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