is rorty really co-opting foucault?

Maybe he isn't. What are the "public" implications of Foucault's work
anyway? Rorty says in the opening pages of "Contingency" that public policy
can influence spaces for private self-creation. What are we supposed to
do--perform resistance by changing tax codes?

Seriously.

~Nate

--

"Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it
offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates,
unites, or re-unites; it cannot help but liberate and enslave.
Even before prescribing, suggesting a future, saying what must
be done, even before exhorting or merely sounding an alarm,
thought, at the level of its existence, in its very dawning, is
in itself an action--a perilous act."
-Michel Foucault


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