Chetan,
Short answer: No.
Long answer: Read Halperin's *Saint Foucault.*
Cheers,
Kaelin
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Chetan Vemuri <aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I guess my question was does History of Sexuality volume 1 deserve to be
> accused of generalizing a total world discourse of sexuality when it was
> really focusing on just western discourses in the 18th and 19th centuries?
>
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Erik Hoogcarspel <jehms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Chetan Vemuri schreef:
> > > Does anyone else think that the History of Sexuality volume 1 is
> > intending
> > > to generalize world sexuaity experiences or do you think it is
> > functioning
> > > to analyze western sexuality rather than generalizing all experiences
> of
> > > sexuality? Some postcolonial critics think it is wrong to not talk
> about
> > > colonial discursive effects on eastern sexualities. I feel sometimes
> > people
> > > approach Foucault too much as a universal thinker in the vein of
> thinkers
> > > like Marx, rather than someone who is regionally focused.
> > >
> > Hi Chetan,
> >
> > your question is very unspecific. I guess Foucault intended it to be an
> > archeology of the discourses around sex. It's very hard to generalise an
> > experience because an experience is specific and indivudalistic by
> > nature. Foucault was not an expert on non-western discourses about sex
> > neither pretended it to be. Colonial influences on sex are also not to
> > be generalised, because each culture has dealt with colonial influences
> > in it's own way. It's hard to say a.f.a.i.k. how much the present
> > discourse about sex in India has been influenced by Victorian ideas
> > about sex and what the influence of the Islamic Wahhabite movement was.
> > And Marx was not an universal thinker, he was just as modern as
> > Descartes or Rousseau.
> >
> > erik
> >
> > --
> > Groet
> >
> > Erik
> >
> > Info: www.xs4all.nl/~jehms <http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ejehms> <
> http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ejehms>
> > Weblog: http://www.volkskrantblog.nl/pub/blogs/blog.php?uid=2950
> > Productie: http://www.olivepress.nl
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>
>
> --
> Chetan Vemuri
> West Des Moines, IA
> aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx
> (515)-418-2771
> "You say you want a Revolution! Well you know, we all want to change the
> world"
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>
Short answer: No.
Long answer: Read Halperin's *Saint Foucault.*
Cheers,
Kaelin
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Chetan Vemuri <aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I guess my question was does History of Sexuality volume 1 deserve to be
> accused of generalizing a total world discourse of sexuality when it was
> really focusing on just western discourses in the 18th and 19th centuries?
>
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Erik Hoogcarspel <jehms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Chetan Vemuri schreef:
> > > Does anyone else think that the History of Sexuality volume 1 is
> > intending
> > > to generalize world sexuaity experiences or do you think it is
> > functioning
> > > to analyze western sexuality rather than generalizing all experiences
> of
> > > sexuality? Some postcolonial critics think it is wrong to not talk
> about
> > > colonial discursive effects on eastern sexualities. I feel sometimes
> > people
> > > approach Foucault too much as a universal thinker in the vein of
> thinkers
> > > like Marx, rather than someone who is regionally focused.
> > >
> > Hi Chetan,
> >
> > your question is very unspecific. I guess Foucault intended it to be an
> > archeology of the discourses around sex. It's very hard to generalise an
> > experience because an experience is specific and indivudalistic by
> > nature. Foucault was not an expert on non-western discourses about sex
> > neither pretended it to be. Colonial influences on sex are also not to
> > be generalised, because each culture has dealt with colonial influences
> > in it's own way. It's hard to say a.f.a.i.k. how much the present
> > discourse about sex in India has been influenced by Victorian ideas
> > about sex and what the influence of the Islamic Wahhabite movement was.
> > And Marx was not an universal thinker, he was just as modern as
> > Descartes or Rousseau.
> >
> > erik
> >
> > --
> > Groet
> >
> > Erik
> >
> > Info: www.xs4all.nl/~jehms <http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ejehms> <
> http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ejehms>
> > Weblog: http://www.volkskrantblog.nl/pub/blogs/blog.php?uid=2950
> > Productie: http://www.olivepress.nl
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Foucault-L mailing list
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Chetan Vemuri
> West Des Moines, IA
> aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx
> (515)-418-2771
> "You say you want a Revolution! Well you know, we all want to change the
> world"
> _______________________________________________
> Foucault-L mailing list
>