There is indeed quite a serious quandry surrounding this text, or rather the Foucault Live version of it.
According to Richard A. Lynch's awesome bibliography of Foucault's shorter works (available here: http://www.foucault.qut.edu.au/lynch.html), this article corresponds to #330 in Dits et Ecrits.
The problem with the Foucault Live version is that it is substantially different from the other versions. It was originally, according to Dits et Ecrits published in English, in Telos, although of course that was in translation. That article is a translated version of #330 in Dits et Ecrits (or quite possibly vice versa). The Foucault Live article differs substantially from either of them, having material not contained in either. Its cited source is the German translation of the interview (I think it is an interview) in Spuren.
This all came to my attention surrounding a quote in Judith Butler's last article about Foucault in Radical Philosophy which she based a lot of her argument on which is to be found in the Foucault Live version but not in the original Telos article or other versions.
Mark Kelly
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PhD candidate
Department of Philosophy
University of Sydney
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Subject: Reference query
Dear Foucault colleagues,
I have a reference quandary that perhaps someone can help me with because
right now I am stumped. I am completing a Works Cited list that includes
the following reference:
Foucault, M. 1996. "How much does it cost for reason to tell the truth?" M.
Foret and M. Martius (trans.), In Foucault Live, S. Lotringer (ed.),
348-362. New York: Semiotext(e). [Original interview conducted in German
in 1983 republished in French in M. Foucault, Dits et écrits, 1954-1988,
vol. 4 (Paris: Gallimard, 1994) xxx-xxx].
Notice that there are xxx's where the pp should be. According to
information in the Semiotexte volume, the original interview, in German,
was in a publication called Spuren, in 1983. For the life of me, I keep
staring at Dits et Ecrits without finding it. So any help, even to confirm
that this did not get included in the four volumes from Gallimard, would be
greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Charles J. Stivale
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According to Richard A. Lynch's awesome bibliography of Foucault's shorter works (available here: http://www.foucault.qut.edu.au/lynch.html), this article corresponds to #330 in Dits et Ecrits.
The problem with the Foucault Live version is that it is substantially different from the other versions. It was originally, according to Dits et Ecrits published in English, in Telos, although of course that was in translation. That article is a translated version of #330 in Dits et Ecrits (or quite possibly vice versa). The Foucault Live article differs substantially from either of them, having material not contained in either. Its cited source is the German translation of the interview (I think it is an interview) in Spuren.
This all came to my attention surrounding a quote in Judith Butler's last article about Foucault in Radical Philosophy which she based a lot of her argument on which is to be found in the Foucault Live version but not in the original Telos article or other versions.
Mark Kelly
--
PhD candidate
Department of Philosophy
University of Sydney
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles J. Stivale" <ad4928@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 10:21 AM
Subject: Reference query
Dear Foucault colleagues,
I have a reference quandary that perhaps someone can help me with because
right now I am stumped. I am completing a Works Cited list that includes
the following reference:
Foucault, M. 1996. "How much does it cost for reason to tell the truth?" M.
Foret and M. Martius (trans.), In Foucault Live, S. Lotringer (ed.),
348-362. New York: Semiotext(e). [Original interview conducted in German
in 1983 republished in French in M. Foucault, Dits et écrits, 1954-1988,
vol. 4 (Paris: Gallimard, 1994) xxx-xxx].
Notice that there are xxx's where the pp should be. According to
information in the Semiotexte volume, the original interview, in German,
was in a publication called Spuren, in 1983. For the life of me, I keep
staring at Dits et Ecrits without finding it. So any help, even to confirm
that this did not get included in the four volumes from Gallimard, would be
greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Charles J. Stivale
***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****
***** *****
Charles J. Stivale
Professor of French
Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures
487 Manoogian Hall
Detroit, MI 48202 USA
Office: 313-577-0970
Fax: 313-577-6243
C_Stivale@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.langlab.wayne.edu/CStivale/index.html
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