> In terms of content, what Foucault and Althusser investigated
> respectively in their best known works enriches our understanding of
> what is called "social reproduction"* in Marxist literature. But I
> wasn't speaking at the level of content. I was suggesting that words
> that have transhistorical application, such as experience and
> production, often obscure discontinuities in history.
but i would want to argue that Foucault's use of experience does not obscure but precisely emphasises such discontinuities in history.
> respectively in their best known works enriches our understanding of
> what is called "social reproduction"* in Marxist literature. But I
> wasn't speaking at the level of content. I was suggesting that words
> that have transhistorical application, such as experience and
> production, often obscure discontinuities in history.
but i would want to argue that Foucault's use of experience does not obscure but precisely emphasises such discontinuities in history.