On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Campbell Jones wrote:
> Any thoughts about the way that Foucualt's comments on suicide
> relate to Camus???
Well, I would think that F would regard C's attempt at a philosophical
resolution of the problem of suicide as a little, ah, absurd.
Personally, I'm always torn between seeing it that way and seeing it as a
valiant if doomed attempt to solve the "one truly serious philosophical
problem"....
By the way, in one of the late interviews, F makes a scornful comment
about the intellectual fashion of self-flagellation holding each
individual to be responsible for all of humanity, which I read as a jibe
at Camus's _The Rebel_. On the other hand, there is something quite
Camusian about F's comments on Iran. (Or, for that matter, Lutheran:
Here I stand, facing the machine guns bare-chested; I can do no other.)
Matthew
---Matthew A. King---Department of Philosophy---York University, Toronto---
"The border is often narrow between a permanent temptation to commit
suicide and the birth of a certain form of political consciousness."
----------------------------(Michel Foucault)------------------------------
Yeah, how could I forget about that :). That's from a GIP pamphlet; it's
quoted in Miller's biography. I've never seen the original text; I'd be
very interested in a translation if one exists.
> Any thoughts about the way that Foucualt's comments on suicide
> relate to Camus???
Well, I would think that F would regard C's attempt at a philosophical
resolution of the problem of suicide as a little, ah, absurd.
Personally, I'm always torn between seeing it that way and seeing it as a
valiant if doomed attempt to solve the "one truly serious philosophical
problem"....
By the way, in one of the late interviews, F makes a scornful comment
about the intellectual fashion of self-flagellation holding each
individual to be responsible for all of humanity, which I read as a jibe
at Camus's _The Rebel_. On the other hand, there is something quite
Camusian about F's comments on Iran. (Or, for that matter, Lutheran:
Here I stand, facing the machine guns bare-chested; I can do no other.)
Matthew
---Matthew A. King---Department of Philosophy---York University, Toronto---
"The border is often narrow between a permanent temptation to commit
suicide and the birth of a certain form of political consciousness."
----------------------------(Michel Foucault)------------------------------
Yeah, how could I forget about that :). That's from a GIP pamphlet; it's
quoted in Miller's biography. I've never seen the original text; I'd be
very interested in a translation if one exists.