File spoon-archives/marxism.archive/marxism_1994/marxism.Jul12-Aug17.94, message 184


Date: Sat, 30 Jul 1994 07:51:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Philip Goldstein <pgold-AT-strauss.udel.edu>
Subject: Re: Method, materialism


John Beasley-Murray:
      Why define materialism as non-discursive? What Marxists have 
learned from Althusser and from Foucault is that discourse, embedded in 
institutions which reproduce it, is, as a consequence, a material force. 
If one must learn English or history to get a high school degree and, as 
a result, be a genuine person in our culture, English or history is a 
material force. 
Philip Goldstein
Associate Professor of English and Philosophy
University of Delaware (Parallel)




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