COLIN WIGHT wrote:
>>I think that certain people want to read Foucault as denying the
>>existence of a Kantian intrinsic human worth, a utilitarian concern with
>>pain and happiness, the importance of contractarian sociality,
>>Aristotelian teleology and order, the indescribable horribleness of the
>>holocaust, the pain and politics of AIDS. Frankly, such denial is not to
>>be found in Foucault's work.
>
>Yes, I would tend to agree, problematic though isn't it? Where does this
>reading come from (and it is not only from the doubters, I mean look at
>Judith Butler)?
Yeah, what does the gang here make of Judith Butler?
Doug
>>I think that certain people want to read Foucault as denying the
>>existence of a Kantian intrinsic human worth, a utilitarian concern with
>>pain and happiness, the importance of contractarian sociality,
>>Aristotelian teleology and order, the indescribable horribleness of the
>>holocaust, the pain and politics of AIDS. Frankly, such denial is not to
>>be found in Foucault's work.
>
>Yes, I would tend to agree, problematic though isn't it? Where does this
>reading come from (and it is not only from the doubters, I mean look at
>Judith Butler)?
Yeah, what does the gang here make of Judith Butler?
Doug