Hi Craig,
Warren Montag has done a lot of research into the philosophical
relationship between Althusser and Foucault, I'm not sure how much he
has done on the personal relationship. In terms of published material
there is a paper on the ISAs essay and Discipline and Punish in a
special issue of Yale French Studies on Althusser (No. 88, 1995 - list
members might be interested to know that Macherey's essay on Foucault's
_Raymond Roussel_ is translated there) and there is the paper on the
Italian Althusser site (run by Turchetto's group) that I provided the
link for a few days ago - if you missed it,
http://www.mercatiesplosivi.com/althusser/materiali.html
(Warren Montag, "Foucault and the Problematic of Origins": Althusser's
Reading of Folie et déraison)
Warren was talking a couple of years ago about writing a book on
Althusser along similar lines to Eribon's _Michel foucault et ses
contemporains_ (1994). Hopefully that project is underway; the essay on
_Folie et déraison_ might be part of that project (it certainly reads
that way). Certainly anyone interested in Althusser should read Warren's
books on Althusser and Spinoza.
Certainly a topic of considerable interest to me.
best wishes
David
Craig McFarlane wrote:
> Changing subjects slightly: the relationship between Althusser and
> Foucault has recently come to interest me. With the exception of the
> (auto)biographies, I haven't been able to find a whole of published
> material that covers either their personal relationship or their
> intellectual relationship. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places...
> I'm especially interested in how Foucault's shift to "analytic" is an
> attempt to get around the science/ideology problem that Althusser's
> "Theory of theoretical practice" generates. (If nothing else, there
> are a lot of interesting parallel passages in their respective works
> on these subjects.)
>
> Slightly different again: is there anything to Miller's claim that one
> of the major causes of the dissolution of Deleuze and Foucault's
> friendship was the publication of HSI? Miller claims that Deleuze read
> that book as an attack on Anti-Oedipus and responding to Foucault with
> an extensive letter detailing his complaints. This claim is found on
> page 297 in two short paragraphs and referenced in footnote 39
> appearing on page 448 as coming from an anonymous source. Has this
> letter ever been found or made public in any way?
>
>
> On 4-Sep-04, at 12:43 PM, Mark Kelly wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Clare,
>>
>> at one point I was responsible for a lot of the content on that
>> Foucault page. The problem is that as people can edit it at will, the
>> article keeps drifting into inaccuracies. Also, a lot of people
>> disagree with me - had a big dispute with people there about
>> Foucault's relationship to Althusser - it turned out ultimately that
>> they were arguing on the basis of Foucault for Beginners. Anyway,
>> I'll get round to tidying it up at some point again. Of course, if
>> anyone else here wants to get involved adding or removing stuff, then
>> that's what wikipedia is all about!
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
>>> From: "Clare O'Farrell" <panoptique@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>>> Reply-To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>> To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>> Subject: wikipedia article on foucault
>>
>>
>>> Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 22:34:11 +1000
>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>> Have people seen the Wikipedia article on Foucault?
>>
>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault
>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>> Looking at the Wikipedia, I see that anyone at all can edit articles
>>
>>
>>> which appear in the wikipedia - what a great concept! The article on
>>
>>
>>> Foucault could do with a few edits... Anyone?
>>
>>
>>> --
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> ************************************************
>>
>>
>>> Clare O'Farrell
>>
>>
>>> email: panoptique@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>> website: http://www.foucault.qut.edu.au
>>
>>
>>> ************************************************
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Warren Montag has done a lot of research into the philosophical
relationship between Althusser and Foucault, I'm not sure how much he
has done on the personal relationship. In terms of published material
there is a paper on the ISAs essay and Discipline and Punish in a
special issue of Yale French Studies on Althusser (No. 88, 1995 - list
members might be interested to know that Macherey's essay on Foucault's
_Raymond Roussel_ is translated there) and there is the paper on the
Italian Althusser site (run by Turchetto's group) that I provided the
link for a few days ago - if you missed it,
http://www.mercatiesplosivi.com/althusser/materiali.html
(Warren Montag, "Foucault and the Problematic of Origins": Althusser's
Reading of Folie et déraison)
Warren was talking a couple of years ago about writing a book on
Althusser along similar lines to Eribon's _Michel foucault et ses
contemporains_ (1994). Hopefully that project is underway; the essay on
_Folie et déraison_ might be part of that project (it certainly reads
that way). Certainly anyone interested in Althusser should read Warren's
books on Althusser and Spinoza.
Certainly a topic of considerable interest to me.
best wishes
David
Craig McFarlane wrote:
> Changing subjects slightly: the relationship between Althusser and
> Foucault has recently come to interest me. With the exception of the
> (auto)biographies, I haven't been able to find a whole of published
> material that covers either their personal relationship or their
> intellectual relationship. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places...
> I'm especially interested in how Foucault's shift to "analytic" is an
> attempt to get around the science/ideology problem that Althusser's
> "Theory of theoretical practice" generates. (If nothing else, there
> are a lot of interesting parallel passages in their respective works
> on these subjects.)
>
> Slightly different again: is there anything to Miller's claim that one
> of the major causes of the dissolution of Deleuze and Foucault's
> friendship was the publication of HSI? Miller claims that Deleuze read
> that book as an attack on Anti-Oedipus and responding to Foucault with
> an extensive letter detailing his complaints. This claim is found on
> page 297 in two short paragraphs and referenced in footnote 39
> appearing on page 448 as coming from an anonymous source. Has this
> letter ever been found or made public in any way?
>
>
> On 4-Sep-04, at 12:43 PM, Mark Kelly wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Clare,
>>
>> at one point I was responsible for a lot of the content on that
>> Foucault page. The problem is that as people can edit it at will, the
>> article keeps drifting into inaccuracies. Also, a lot of people
>> disagree with me - had a big dispute with people there about
>> Foucault's relationship to Althusser - it turned out ultimately that
>> they were arguing on the basis of Foucault for Beginners. Anyway,
>> I'll get round to tidying it up at some point again. Of course, if
>> anyone else here wants to get involved adding or removing stuff, then
>> that's what wikipedia is all about!
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
>>> From: "Clare O'Farrell" <panoptique@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>>> Reply-To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>> To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>> Subject: wikipedia article on foucault
>>
>>
>>> Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 22:34:11 +1000
>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>> Have people seen the Wikipedia article on Foucault?
>>
>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault
>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>> Looking at the Wikipedia, I see that anyone at all can edit articles
>>
>>
>>> which appear in the wikipedia - what a great concept! The article on
>>
>>
>>> Foucault could do with a few edits... Anyone?
>>
>>
>>> --
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> ************************************************
>>
>>
>>> Clare O'Farrell
>>
>>
>>> email: panoptique@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>> website: http://www.foucault.qut.edu.au
>>
>>
>>> ************************************************
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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