In a message dated 11/5/00 3:15:05 PM Eastern Standard Time,
stuart.elden@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> He remarks that the
> Frankfurt school was not mentioned by his teachers. The interviewer thinks
> this astonishing, and Foucault goes on to remark that it raises interesting
> issues about how related schools of thought can be so apart (he means his
> intellectual upbringing in French history of science, i.e. Canguilhem and
> Bachelard above all).
Well, I searched for the quote and haven't found it yet! But, I clearly
recall Foucault stating that he would have liked to have been able to read
and study the Critical Theory for ever! but that he had to work on other
things. If anyone knows it would be Thomas McCarthy or Axel Honneth.
Honneth adds a footnote #28 of Chapter 4
in his 'Critique of Power,' 1991, about Foucault's work as a continuation of
Adorno's philosophy of history. If Foucault is familiar enough with Reich to
form the basis of History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, 1976, then obviously he is
familiar with Marcuse, and the short jump to Adorno is easy. I have read a
quote in which Foucault stated he enjoyed reading the Frankfurt Critical
Theorists a great deal and that he wold have become one or like them, but
that he other things to do. I will continue to look for that quote!
Vunch
stuart.elden@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> He remarks that the
> Frankfurt school was not mentioned by his teachers. The interviewer thinks
> this astonishing, and Foucault goes on to remark that it raises interesting
> issues about how related schools of thought can be so apart (he means his
> intellectual upbringing in French history of science, i.e. Canguilhem and
> Bachelard above all).
Well, I searched for the quote and haven't found it yet! But, I clearly
recall Foucault stating that he would have liked to have been able to read
and study the Critical Theory for ever! but that he had to work on other
things. If anyone knows it would be Thomas McCarthy or Axel Honneth.
Honneth adds a footnote #28 of Chapter 4
in his 'Critique of Power,' 1991, about Foucault's work as a continuation of
Adorno's philosophy of history. If Foucault is familiar enough with Reich to
form the basis of History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, 1976, then obviously he is
familiar with Marcuse, and the short jump to Adorno is easy. I have read a
quote in which Foucault stated he enjoyed reading the Frankfurt Critical
Theorists a great deal and that he wold have become one or like them, but
that he other things to do. I will continue to look for that quote!
Vunch