Two things:
somewhere I have a memo from the 80s with a statement to the effect that NEH
funding for theory would not place under her leadership;
more important and pathetically ironic:
The Nation is doing this number of LC--who deserves worse--but itself has
said very similar things about Foucauldian critics, accusing Judith Butler
and me, among others, of subverting claims to reality, etc. To get up to
date on this check out the Nation's pages on the 'Left Conservatism'
conference at Santa Cruz in 1999.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of William J
King
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2000 1:11 PM
To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Lynne Cheney's views on Foucault
what is NEH?
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Allen Miller wrote:
> Lynn Cheney is very dangerous. During her tenure as head of NEH in the
80's, it was virtually impossible to get theoretically informed research
funded.
>
> Paul Allen Miller
> Director, Program in Comparative Literature
> Assoc. Prof. Classics
> Co-editor Intertexts
> Department of French and Classics
> University of South Carolina
> Columbia, SC 29208
> pamiller@xxxxxx
> (Ph) 803-777-0473
> (Fax) 803-777-7514
>
> >>> TODDVANNOY@xxxxxxx - 9/23/2000 11:28 AM >>>
> Has anyone read the last edition of "The Nation" (October 2/2000) ? There
is
> an article detailing the views of the Republican Vice-Presidential
> candidate's wife, Lynne Cheney- a right-wing culture warrior, ala William
> Bennett. Apparently, Mrs. Cheney wrote a book in 1995, titled "Telling the
> Truth," which seems to attack Foucault, as a defender of godless
relativism,
> I assume. According to the Nation, "Telling the Truth" declares that
> Foucault's ideas threaten nothing less than the survival of western
> civilization," going as far to blame Foucault for the murder of an
ice-cream
> vendor in Philadelphia, stating that "intellectual elites do no one a
favor
> by sending through society messages that there is no external reality in
> which we all participate, that there is only the game of the moment, the
> entertainment of the day."
> Does anyone have any comments, concerning Mrs. Cheney's views?
> TRV
>
>
somewhere I have a memo from the 80s with a statement to the effect that NEH
funding for theory would not place under her leadership;
more important and pathetically ironic:
The Nation is doing this number of LC--who deserves worse--but itself has
said very similar things about Foucauldian critics, accusing Judith Butler
and me, among others, of subverting claims to reality, etc. To get up to
date on this check out the Nation's pages on the 'Left Conservatism'
conference at Santa Cruz in 1999.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of William J
King
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2000 1:11 PM
To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Lynne Cheney's views on Foucault
what is NEH?
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Allen Miller wrote:
> Lynn Cheney is very dangerous. During her tenure as head of NEH in the
80's, it was virtually impossible to get theoretically informed research
funded.
>
> Paul Allen Miller
> Director, Program in Comparative Literature
> Assoc. Prof. Classics
> Co-editor Intertexts
> Department of French and Classics
> University of South Carolina
> Columbia, SC 29208
> pamiller@xxxxxx
> (Ph) 803-777-0473
> (Fax) 803-777-7514
>
> >>> TODDVANNOY@xxxxxxx - 9/23/2000 11:28 AM >>>
> Has anyone read the last edition of "The Nation" (October 2/2000) ? There
is
> an article detailing the views of the Republican Vice-Presidential
> candidate's wife, Lynne Cheney- a right-wing culture warrior, ala William
> Bennett. Apparently, Mrs. Cheney wrote a book in 1995, titled "Telling the
> Truth," which seems to attack Foucault, as a defender of godless
relativism,
> I assume. According to the Nation, "Telling the Truth" declares that
> Foucault's ideas threaten nothing less than the survival of western
> civilization," going as far to blame Foucault for the murder of an
ice-cream
> vendor in Philadelphia, stating that "intellectual elites do no one a
favor
> by sending through society messages that there is no external reality in
> which we all participate, that there is only the game of the moment, the
> entertainment of the day."
> Does anyone have any comments, concerning Mrs. Cheney's views?
> TRV
>
>