>I'm really curious: what is it about Foucault that makes him something
>other than a characteristically "modern" thinker?
>
>Steve
Isn't it Foucault's questioning the "progress" of the Enlightenment project
or the ability of reason to save humankind? Or more appropriately, the
doubt that humankind can through the use of their reason escape the
repressive powers that subjagte them. Obviously for FOucault power is
neither repressive or escapable.
But I agree that a lot of what he says in, say, What is Enlightenment,
paints him as a liberal in the J. S. Millian sense.
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