Scott,
I can help you with the first quote. It is in the interview "Return of
Morality" which can be found in *Foucault Live.*
Michael
At 15:43 24/02/2000 -0000, you wrote:
>Hi,
>Can anyone help - I'm looking for a couple of things in Foucault's work at
>the moment. Firstly, there is a quote which I read some time ago and have
>since lost which runs something like, 'the idea of a universal morality to
>which we would all submit seems to me to be catastrophic.' Can anyone help
>me track this down again? Secondly, I am intrigued by something that Andre
>Glucksmann has said about Foucault in a chapter of the book 'Michel
>Foucault: Philosopher.' Here, Glucksmann is discussing Foucault's work in
>the context of debates around nihilism, and he argues that, although
>Foucault's work can be considered nihilistic in at least two senses of the
>word, it is important to remember that he was motivated to pursue his
>studies by a notion of 'the intolerable' - by the identification of
>something which is intolerable and needs working on. I know Foucault has, in
>a few places, talked about 'diagnosing our present,' and how his work stems
>from his noticing something that is wrong in the present, but is there
>anywhere he actually expands upon this notion or mentions what constitutes
>something as 'intolerable'?
>Help and thoughts on this would be much appreciated,
>
>Scott.
>
>
>
I can help you with the first quote. It is in the interview "Return of
Morality" which can be found in *Foucault Live.*
Michael
At 15:43 24/02/2000 -0000, you wrote:
>Hi,
>Can anyone help - I'm looking for a couple of things in Foucault's work at
>the moment. Firstly, there is a quote which I read some time ago and have
>since lost which runs something like, 'the idea of a universal morality to
>which we would all submit seems to me to be catastrophic.' Can anyone help
>me track this down again? Secondly, I am intrigued by something that Andre
>Glucksmann has said about Foucault in a chapter of the book 'Michel
>Foucault: Philosopher.' Here, Glucksmann is discussing Foucault's work in
>the context of debates around nihilism, and he argues that, although
>Foucault's work can be considered nihilistic in at least two senses of the
>word, it is important to remember that he was motivated to pursue his
>studies by a notion of 'the intolerable' - by the identification of
>something which is intolerable and needs working on. I know Foucault has, in
>a few places, talked about 'diagnosing our present,' and how his work stems
>from his noticing something that is wrong in the present, but is there
>anywhere he actually expands upon this notion or mentions what constitutes
>something as 'intolerable'?
>Help and thoughts on this would be much appreciated,
>
>Scott.
>
>
>