On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Clare O'Farrell wrote:
> Actaully Foucault said quite the reverse on a number of occasions and
> was annoyed when the socialist government was elected in France in
> 1981 that they didn't call on his expertise in various areas.
His position on this seems to have changed in the mid-70s. Here is a
passage from the 1977 interview titled "Confinement, Psychiatry, Prison"
in _Politics Philosophy Culture_: "In the end, I've become rather
irritated by an attitude, which for a long time was mine, too, and which I
no longer subscribe to, which consists in saying: our problem is to
denounce and criticize; let them get on with their legislation and their
reforms." (But then in the 1981 interview "Practicing Criticism" he seems
to sound more vague and non-committal again.)
Matthew
---Matthew A. King---Department of Philosophy---York University, Toronto---
"It was in the barbarous, gothic times when words had a meaning;
in those days, writers expressed thoughts."
----------------------------(Anatole France)-------------------------------
> Actaully Foucault said quite the reverse on a number of occasions and
> was annoyed when the socialist government was elected in France in
> 1981 that they didn't call on his expertise in various areas.
His position on this seems to have changed in the mid-70s. Here is a
passage from the 1977 interview titled "Confinement, Psychiatry, Prison"
in _Politics Philosophy Culture_: "In the end, I've become rather
irritated by an attitude, which for a long time was mine, too, and which I
no longer subscribe to, which consists in saying: our problem is to
denounce and criticize; let them get on with their legislation and their
reforms." (But then in the 1981 interview "Practicing Criticism" he seems
to sound more vague and non-committal again.)
Matthew
---Matthew A. King---Department of Philosophy---York University, Toronto---
"It was in the barbarous, gothic times when words had a meaning;
in those days, writers expressed thoughts."
----------------------------(Anatole France)-------------------------------