On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Bob wrote:
> >First, with regard to what Deleuze called Foucault's concern about "the
> >indignity of speaking for others"
>
> Matthew, I'm wondering where Deleuze makes this observation. Could you
> provide a citation?
It's in a discussion with Foucault titled "Intellectuals and Power" in
Language, Counter-Memory, Practice and in Foucault Live (the quotation is
on p. 76 in Foucault Live). Todd May spins that point into a book: The
Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism (not as exciting as it
sounds, I'm afraid).
> >Rorty rather crudely makes more
> >or less this point, that there is no "language of the oppressed", because
> >to be oppressed is to be forced to describe yourself in someone else's
> >terms.
>
> And where Rorty makes this observation?
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, p. 94.
Matthew
---Matthew A. King---Department of Philosophy---York University, Toronto---
"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced
at least once."
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