Dear Ian,
Yes, perhaps I didn't make my point clearly enough. Foucault is in there
with a scalpel, but not for the purpose of a post-mortem, but perhaps to cut
out some malignant growths (ie humanism). I think that he hopes that the
patient (perhaps enlightenment without the capital E) will live. ;-)
Cheers,
Debra
>>Take a look at Foucalt's pieces "What is Critique?", "What is
>>Enlightenment?" and "Kant on Enlightenment and Revolution", before you
>>decide that Foucault has abandoned any positive notion of the
Enlightenment.
>
>the tone Foucault strikes is pretty different from Kant, if you read his
>original.
>Ian R. Douglas
Yes, perhaps I didn't make my point clearly enough. Foucault is in there
with a scalpel, but not for the purpose of a post-mortem, but perhaps to cut
out some malignant growths (ie humanism). I think that he hopes that the
patient (perhaps enlightenment without the capital E) will live. ;-)
Cheers,
Debra
>>Take a look at Foucalt's pieces "What is Critique?", "What is
>>Enlightenment?" and "Kant on Enlightenment and Revolution", before you
>>decide that Foucault has abandoned any positive notion of the
Enlightenment.
>
>the tone Foucault strikes is pretty different from Kant, if you read his
>original.
>Ian R. Douglas