MICHEL FOUCAULT, info.

Joe,

I was interested in your posting, can you supply the ref for:

>   Foucault claims: "I'm an empiricist.  I don't try to advance
>>          things unless they apply" (Body/Power) 

However, in regard to :

          3. Linked to #1&2 (an these can come in any order), a
>          materialism (again, A Marxian precept).

Marx's materialism was never so vulgar as to conflate the real with the
actual, else why all the concern with unobservable structures, nay even
metaphysical ones: Hume would have hated this. Also, I thought that since
Derrida amongst others, everyone "knows" that there is no escaping
metaphysics, despite the logical positivists thinking they had.

Thanks,

Colin.




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Colin Wight
Department of International Politics
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth
SY23 3DA

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