Dear all,
This exchange prompts me to ask a question to help me out with my own notes! I read somewhere in past 12 months that Foucault described his encounter with Nietzsche in the 50's as his intellectual "turning point". Can anyone tell me where he actually says this?
Very grateful,
Nicholas
On Jan 23, 2007, at 6:15, Glen Fuller wrote:
This exchange prompts me to ask a question to help me out with my own notes! I read somewhere in past 12 months that Foucault described his encounter with Nietzsche in the 50's as his intellectual "turning point". Can anyone tell me where he actually says this?
Very grateful,
Nicholas
On Jan 23, 2007, at 6:15, Glen Fuller wrote:
Adriano,
I thank you for your reply. It is very useful indeed. He says somewhere else
that he is not a philosopher (page 249 of the Ethics edited collection, I
think. bad notes, sorry!!). Very odd. I wonder if this is Foucault being
bashful under the burden of anticipated critique?
By "nietzschean thinker" do you mean in respect to his historical
methodology as a "genealogical descent" or with regards to time (event vs
eternity) do you mean a thinker of the untimely? I guess that is asking
almost the same question twice...
What is remarkable is the use of 'scene' in the title of the piece. It is
only superficial of course and entirely coincidental, but half my
dissertation is organised around thinking about an event-based conception of
the "scene" within a particular strand of popular culture. More in the
concrescent sense of an event than in the discontinuous (structuralist)
sense. I use it as a hinge to mediate between the historical events (in
Foucault's sense of eventalization) and the contemporary present day sense
of the scene (within which I insinuated myself through fieldwork).
Ciao,
glen.
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Glen;
You are refering to "La scene de la philosophie", april 1978 (where M.
Watanabe interviews Foucault) It is important to remark that F doesnot
describes himself as a philosopher. As far as it is shown on the spanish
translation, F says that his is interested in the event, not in eternity,
and thats what doesnot make him a philosopher in the classic way, or maybe
not even a philosopher at all, or a good philosopher. I think that this
statement is rather diferent to say that he is putting himself as a
philosopher, but that doesnot mean either that he is putting himself as
something else than a nietzschean thinker. Those days F was very careful to
take some margins about himself (i could bet that by that time he noticed
that he was somehow sick) and other philosophers (to me it sounds that he
was taking distance about Deleuze, but not in a combative way: on contrary,
to say that D is not like hime, that he is really a philosopher - remarking
that he (i mean F) is not"-, but
this sounds not as a "victim discourse", F ment that)
Cheers and forgive my broken english
adr
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De: Glen Fuller <gfuller1@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Enviado: lunes, 22 de enero, 2007 20:06:04
Asunto: [Foucault-L] DE 234 article?
hi,
does anyone have the reference for the dits et ecrits publication #234? or
know if it has been translated into english? according to the 'event' entry
in the "key concepts" glosssary in clare's book (2005, _michel foucault_,
p136) it is where Foucault describes himself as a philosopher of the event.
(I am organising some stuff for a reading group on Foucault's concept of the
"event" (through Deleuze and others) and secondly on his eventalization
methodology as minor science of the archive.)
Ciao,
glen.
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