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From: ccw94@xxxxxxxxxx (COLIN WIGHT)
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 10:10:26 +0100
Ammar wrote:
>As has been already mentioned F. is opposed to the concept of
>human nature where it is seen as something that "has been concealed,
>alienated or imprisoned in and by mechanisms of repression".
This is where Doug's point from long ago gets its force. For this reading of
Foucault totally neglects Foucault#s claim that his whole project has be to
examine the way human beings are made subjects. An implicit, or explicit
humanism, dare I suggest? Albeit unthematised.
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Colin Wight
Department of International Politics
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth
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