hi shirley: its actually from discipline and punish, p. 31, the last
sentence of The Body of the Condemned.
best, jean
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Shirley Lim wrote:
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> I wonder if someone could help me out of this pickle. i have lost the
> citation to this note that i took from a reading of Foucault--i thought it
> was from _Genealogy_, but i have re-read the darn thing 3 times and still
> can't find the passage. The passage is where Foucault is writing about
> history, and makes the point that history is meaningless for him "if one
> means by that writing a history of the past in terms of the present."
> Instead he argues that history has meaning only "if one means writing the
> history of the present."
> I'll be very grateful for help with this.
> Thanks:-)
> Shirley Lim <slim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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sentence of The Body of the Condemned.
best, jean
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Shirley Lim wrote:
>
>
>
> I wonder if someone could help me out of this pickle. i have lost the
> citation to this note that i took from a reading of Foucault--i thought it
> was from _Genealogy_, but i have re-read the darn thing 3 times and still
> can't find the passage. The passage is where Foucault is writing about
> history, and makes the point that history is meaningless for him "if one
> means by that writing a history of the past in terms of the present."
> Instead he argues that history has meaning only "if one means writing the
> history of the present."
> I'll be very grateful for help with this.
> Thanks:-)
> Shirley Lim <slim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>