Re: Ideology, episteme and knowledge

Ludovic,

have a look at Michelle Barrett, 'The politics of Truth', she looks at the
Marxist idea of Ideology and what's left of it after Foucault's critique.

I do>Hi,
>
>Does anyone know where I can find any works about a comparison between the
>conceptions of =E9pist=E9m=E8 or "savoir" in Foucault and the marxist=
conception
>of ideology and especially the one developed by Althusser?
>
>Maybe someone can help me to understand clearly the own conception of
>Ideology developed in AK, as a limit, a frontier, between science and
>savoir? Would Foucault agree with the opinion of Althusser that "ideology
>has no history"? Then, is there here a kind of "eternal" and then why not
>"universal" point in the analysis of Foucault? MAybe, the beginning of a
>real theory of knowledge? That's a big problem for me, because I always
>thought that Foucault always refused such theoretical, or universal, point
>of view.
>
>MAybe that's all silly, so...
>
>Thanx anyway,
>
>Ludovic ARMAND
>Etudiant en th=E8se de Science politique
>

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

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