Johanna:
if you want some real anti-pomo ax grinding, check out Allan McGill's "Prophets of
Apocalypse", which basically reads french post structuralism for the taint of
reaction, linking it all with heidegger and the death camps. I was once appauled
when, in a history class taught by a militant anti-foucauldian, we read mcgill's
book, habermas's attack on foucault and her own attack from her own book, and we
never read any foucault!!!
sb
Liddle wrote:
>
> 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
if you want some real anti-pomo ax grinding, check out Allan McGill's "Prophets of
Apocalypse", which basically reads french post structuralism for the taint of
reaction, linking it all with heidegger and the death camps. I was once appauled
when, in a history class taught by a militant anti-foucauldian, we read mcgill's
book, habermas's attack on foucault and her own attack from her own book, and we
never read any foucault!!!
sb
Liddle wrote:
>
> 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