Foucault and Spengler

Dear Foucault-philes,

I would be very grateful for some help with a query I have. I am very
interested in tracing the reception of Foucault as a 'dangerous
conservative-irrationalist', along much the same lines as the German
Conservative Revolutionaries of the 1920s and 1930s. I am already aware of
the debate generated by Habermas' Der Philosophische Diskurs der Moderne
(The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity) amd Manfred Frank's dismissal of
modern French thought as reactionary: is anyone aware of any other
contributions to this debate?

Also, I would be very interested to hear your reactions to the idea that
Foucault can be compared with the likes of Spengler, Klages, Baeumler et
al. I know Foucault raised a wry smile at this suggestion. Do you have the
same reaction?

Thank you for your help.

Johanna Liddle
Institute for German Studies
University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT
UK



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