On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 08:33:29 -0000 Stuart Elden
<Stuart.Elden@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, I argue, and contrary to most received opinion that Heidegger is far
> more fundamental than Nietzsche. Often when Nietzsche is the influence he is
> read through a Heideggerian lens. The thesis, which is on space and history
> in Foucault, identifies a number of issues, looks at Nietzsche and suggests
> that N alone could not have provided F with the conceptual tools he has.
> Hence Heidegger. I'm not so sure about Adorno - he's there in some of F's
> work, but not as a major source. F makes some comments about Adorno & the
> Frankfurt school late in life, these are interesting in this context. In any
> case, despite his protestations, Adorno owes a lot to Heidegger.
>
Stuart, what do you think of the great influence of structuralism on F?
How do you see it transforming, mutating, disappearing-if so?
thanks,
henry