>
> Critique isn't pessimism, is it? I thought it was what Nietzsche
> called it, a gay science, the fro:liche Wissenschaft. As Nietzsche
> said about nihilism--we're not introducing pessimism; we're pointing
> out the pessimism that metaphysics and ontology have built into their
> system. Foucault's standing invitation to alterity seems very
> optimistic.
>
> Rick Duerden
>
In his Preface to 'AntiOedipus' Foucault states that activists don't have
to be sad. He does else where call for an active pessimism (I can't
remeber which essay), but then this could also be balance against his
more creative impulses in his later writings on the construction of an
aesthetics of existence and an ethics of care of the self.
Saul
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> Critique isn't pessimism, is it? I thought it was what Nietzsche
> called it, a gay science, the fro:liche Wissenschaft. As Nietzsche
> said about nihilism--we're not introducing pessimism; we're pointing
> out the pessimism that metaphysics and ontology have built into their
> system. Foucault's standing invitation to alterity seems very
> optimistic.
>
> Rick Duerden
>
In his Preface to 'AntiOedipus' Foucault states that activists don't have
to be sad. He does else where call for an active pessimism (I can't
remeber which essay), but then this could also be balance against his
more creative impulses in his later writings on the construction of an
aesthetics of existence and an ethics of care of the self.
Saul
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