Re: [Foucault-L] High Court of Australia judge Crennan on post modernism and the law

Clare

Maybe you would like to have a look at my article on the Deleuzian lawyer in
the last issue of the international journal for the semiotics of law .....
it might be a little bit more fun than Crelland J .....

One day Ill have to talk to you about coming home and looking for a job :-(

Martin

On 19/07/07, Clare O'Farrell <c.ofarrell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I meant to add to my last email, thanks Martin for sending this
article on - I found it useful and interesting to see this. More
evidence of an increasingly popular 'discursive practice' of anti
pomo arguments - which are really just attacking straw men most of
the time.

At 11:51 +0200 18/7/07, martin hardie wrote:
>Hi Clare, Scott et al
>
>I only snet this as it amused e a little that the HCA was talking about
>Foucault ...... long way from Dawson J or Gibbs CJ, but I didn't hold out
>any hope that the Melbourne Bar had really found pomoism....... I suppose
it
>was just a reaction on my part that as an ex pat winging aussie something
>more interesting might come out of that country ... as all it seems to be
is
>sadness and reaction ..... poor fella my country .....
>
>Martin a winging aussie n Bilbao
>
>
>
>On 18/07/07, Scott Nicholas <snichola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Clare,
>>
>> thanks for the interview transcript. Crennan perspective is just a
'tad'
>> self -serving.
>>
>> I tend to think that the need for objective truth and certainty
reflects a
>> religious like impulse and a high degree
>> of personal fear. Could it have been otherwise given the influence of
>> theology on modernist philosophers like Descartes and the
Enlightenment
>> thinkers? Certainly, sociologists like Durkheim and Weber thought so
in
>> terms of the dominant influences of modern life.Arguably, much of the
>> modernist project is underpinned by theological values, attitudes and
>> beliefs.
>>
>> Scott Nicholas
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Clare O'Farrell" <c.ofarrell@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "Mailing-list" <foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 2:19 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Foucault-L] High Court of Australia judge Crennan on
post
>> modernism and the law
>>
>>
>> >I have to say I get a bit tired of reading this kind of simplistic
>> > rendition - which has become a widespread orthodoxy in some quarters
>> > - of Foucault's ideas on truth.
>> >
>> > Here is an interesting interview with Foucault which has just gone
up
>> > online with some points of view which might shake this orthodoxy a
>> > little. This interview has previously been difficult to access
>> >
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/historydept/michaelbess/Foucault%20Interview
>> >
>> >> Foucault recounts this anecdote to draw attention to what he
regards
>> as
>> >> the
>> >>arbitrariness of definitions framed to describe human behaviour, and
the
>> >>contingent nature of meaning or truth. This point is repeated in
many
>> >>places
>> >>and under many guises throughout his oeuvre. He rejects our
culture's
>> long
>> >>tradition of belief in objective truths, and the law's use of reason
to
>> >>establish truth, since 'truths' for him are fashioned by whatever is
the
>> >>dominant group paradigm or discourse.
>> >
>> > --
>> > regards
>> > Clare
>> > ************************************************
>> > Clare O'Farrell
>> > email: c.ofarrell@xxxxxxxxxx
>> > website: http://www.michel-foucault.com
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