Hi Kevin
This is an interesting question - I'm not sure where Foucault theorised 'practice' in general. It might be useful to start from Althusser's concept of practice as elaborated in _For Marx_ (and on which there are, from memory, several commentaries by others published or unpublished) and look at how Foucault might have responded to, or perhaps incorporated, Althusser's concept of practice. As Warren Montag and others have said, often there seems to have been a theoretical dialogue - explicit or implicit - between Althusser and Foucault.
I'm interested to read what others better read in Foucault - or perhaps just with better memories - than I have to say on this question of a general concept of practice in Foucault. Perhaps it exists only in what Althusser termed 'the practical state' within Foucault's writings on various practices?
DM
On 28/06/2005, at 2:51 AM, François Gagnon wrote:
This is an interesting question - I'm not sure where Foucault theorised 'practice' in general. It might be useful to start from Althusser's concept of practice as elaborated in _For Marx_ (and on which there are, from memory, several commentaries by others published or unpublished) and look at how Foucault might have responded to, or perhaps incorporated, Althusser's concept of practice. As Warren Montag and others have said, often there seems to have been a theoretical dialogue - explicit or implicit - between Althusser and Foucault.
I'm interested to read what others better read in Foucault - or perhaps just with better memories - than I have to say on this question of a general concept of practice in Foucault. Perhaps it exists only in what Althusser termed 'the practical state' within Foucault's writings on various practices?
DM
On 28/06/2005, at 2:51 AM, François Gagnon wrote:
Take a look at the index of Dits et Écrits... there's an impressive list!
François
Kevin Turner a écrit :
can anybody point me in the direction of some texts that discuss f's usage
of the term practice: i.e. as in discourse-practice; but also in terms of
medical practice, disciplinary practices, governmental practice.
regards - k
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