I think most people use the word "narcissism" and some other words bad, they
label narcisists people who love themselves and take care of themselves
physically, most people do not use terms correctly, for instance most people
dont understand what love means, and what egoism means, and that is why I
also like Derrida, I liked your post it sounded interesting ;-)
Juan Carlos
"In Sparta, Greece people ate at the common table where the diet was strict.
Those who gained weight over their ideal-prime weight were separated from
society" -Indro Montanelli (History of The Greeks)
>From: Donald E Van Duyse <devanduyse@xxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: Power and the Subject
>Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:37:30 -0600
>
>I have occasionally heard the suggestion that Foucault is a hyped up
>version of Callicles from Plato's dialogue, Gorgias. Callicles argues
>that it is the natural order for the strong to rule over the weak, that
>morality is a fiction employed by rulers to keep underlings in line.
>Certainly, in the Platonic context, Callicles is a straw man--- a raw,
>unsophisticated proponent, perhaps laying bare the "truth" behind
>sophistry (as Plato might see it).
>But again, this only works in the world of these sorts of fixed, Platonic
>oppositions. To the extent Nietzsche recapitulates his own
>contra-Platonic oppositions, from the flip side, well, he does to some
>extent fall into this trap, but not consistently. I hear a critique,
>very faintly taking place in the background, by Foucault, of the
>excessive heroics, narcissism, and amoral certitudes constructed by the
>worst readings of Nietzsche. Isn't F somewhat at war with the Callicles
>reading of Nietzsche? ( I have trouble imaging a Foucaultian Superman,
>for that matter.)
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label narcisists people who love themselves and take care of themselves
physically, most people do not use terms correctly, for instance most people
dont understand what love means, and what egoism means, and that is why I
also like Derrida, I liked your post it sounded interesting ;-)
Juan Carlos
"In Sparta, Greece people ate at the common table where the diet was strict.
Those who gained weight over their ideal-prime weight were separated from
society" -Indro Montanelli (History of The Greeks)
>From: Donald E Van Duyse <devanduyse@xxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: Power and the Subject
>Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:37:30 -0600
>
>I have occasionally heard the suggestion that Foucault is a hyped up
>version of Callicles from Plato's dialogue, Gorgias. Callicles argues
>that it is the natural order for the strong to rule over the weak, that
>morality is a fiction employed by rulers to keep underlings in line.
>Certainly, in the Platonic context, Callicles is a straw man--- a raw,
>unsophisticated proponent, perhaps laying bare the "truth" behind
>sophistry (as Plato might see it).
>But again, this only works in the world of these sorts of fixed, Platonic
>oppositions. To the extent Nietzsche recapitulates his own
>contra-Platonic oppositions, from the flip side, well, he does to some
>extent fall into this trap, but not consistently. I hear a critique,
>very faintly taking place in the background, by Foucault, of the
>excessive heroics, narcissism, and amoral certitudes constructed by the
>worst readings of Nietzsche. Isn't F somewhat at war with the Callicles
>reading of Nietzsche? ( I have trouble imaging a Foucaultian Superman,
>for that matter.)
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