Ben:
we had a good discussion of this issue on list a while ago - I suggest
searching the archives.
an interesting tid-bit that you can find in the Dits et Ecrits
chronology that was brought to my attention by Daniel Defert when he
was in London last year was that Foucault had a neighbour in Tunis who
was a Frenchman who was an expert in analytic philosophy, whose
library Foucault read from at that time, having left his own books in
Paris - this had a massive influence on the Archaeology of Knowledge,
which he was writing at that time.
what this has to do with Erving Goffman is obscure to me, though of
course the similarity of Foucault to Goffman has been noted and needs
further attention in sociology.
Mark
> > At 05:25 AM 3/17/2005, you wrote:
> > >Hi all,
> > >
> > >I am interested in learning more about the
> > influence that analytical
> > >philosophy had on Foucault and his ideas of power
> > and discourse. In
> > >'Foucault and His Interlocutors', in the chapter
> > entitled 'Structures and
> > >Strategies of Discourse', Davidson quotes Foucault:
> > >
> > >"For Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophy it is a
> > question of making a critical
> > >analysis of thought on the basis of the way in
> > which one says things. I
> > >think on could imagine, in the same way, a
> > philosophy that would ... bear
> > >rather on relations of power than on language
> > games."
> > >
> > >Davidson later cites Foucault's early engagement
> > with linguistic philosophy
> > >and Wittgenstein in particular as evidence that
> > Foucault's philosophy grew
> > >from influences that weren't purely continental.
> > >
> > >I was wondering if anyone knew of any other
> > statements by Foucault or
> > >otherwise, in which this relationship is discussed?
> > >
> > >Cheers,
> > >
> > >Ben Sorgiovanni
> > >
> > >
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we had a good discussion of this issue on list a while ago - I suggest
searching the archives.
an interesting tid-bit that you can find in the Dits et Ecrits
chronology that was brought to my attention by Daniel Defert when he
was in London last year was that Foucault had a neighbour in Tunis who
was a Frenchman who was an expert in analytic philosophy, whose
library Foucault read from at that time, having left his own books in
Paris - this had a massive influence on the Archaeology of Knowledge,
which he was writing at that time.
what this has to do with Erving Goffman is obscure to me, though of
course the similarity of Foucault to Goffman has been noted and needs
further attention in sociology.
Mark
> > At 05:25 AM 3/17/2005, you wrote:
> > >Hi all,
> > >
> > >I am interested in learning more about the
> > influence that analytical
> > >philosophy had on Foucault and his ideas of power
> > and discourse. In
> > >'Foucault and His Interlocutors', in the chapter
> > entitled 'Structures and
> > >Strategies of Discourse', Davidson quotes Foucault:
> > >
> > >"For Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophy it is a
> > question of making a critical
> > >analysis of thought on the basis of the way in
> > which one says things. I
> > >think on could imagine, in the same way, a
> > philosophy that would ... bear
> > >rather on relations of power than on language
> > games."
> > >
> > >Davidson later cites Foucault's early engagement
> > with linguistic philosophy
> > >and Wittgenstein in particular as evidence that
> > Foucault's philosophy grew
> > >from influences that weren't purely continental.
> > >
> > >I was wondering if anyone knew of any other
> > statements by Foucault or
> > >otherwise, in which this relationship is discussed?
> > >
> > >Cheers,
> > >
> > >Ben Sorgiovanni
> > >
> > >
> > >_______________________________________________
> > >Foucault-L mailing list
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Foucault-L mailing list
> >
>
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