>huh? what? what "actual past"?
Wasn't this answered in the original post:
>If the past according to Michel Foucault exists in this world at all, it is
only as the literature of a corpse.
Also, if reference to the Human condition is tied to specific 'centers(?),
conceputalisations, geo-political communities. As in:
> The complex cultural dynamics that Foucault investigated do *not* apply to
> everyone everywhere - they only apply to specific
>people.
Then what use are Foucault's inquiries? How is it that the work of a French
intellectual is becomes extended to being Euro-centric? Even worse, do his
inquiries have any meaning beyond the specific moments of which they are
composed? Did he say anything about madness, or simply about the 'madness'
he encountered? Taken seriously, this form of regressive particularism
negates the whole of Foucault's work.
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Colin Wight
Department of International Politics
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth
SY23 3DA
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Wasn't this answered in the original post:
>If the past according to Michel Foucault exists in this world at all, it is
only as the literature of a corpse.
Also, if reference to the Human condition is tied to specific 'centers(?),
conceputalisations, geo-political communities. As in:
> The complex cultural dynamics that Foucault investigated do *not* apply to
> everyone everywhere - they only apply to specific
>people.
Then what use are Foucault's inquiries? How is it that the work of a French
intellectual is becomes extended to being Euro-centric? Even worse, do his
inquiries have any meaning beyond the specific moments of which they are
composed? Did he say anything about madness, or simply about the 'madness'
he encountered? Taken seriously, this form of regressive particularism
negates the whole of Foucault's work.
>
>
>
>
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Colin Wight
Department of International Politics
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth
SY23 3DA
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