Respected Indian jurist AG Noorani (who I am a huge fan of) was
reviewing a book on Hans Morgenthau, when he gave a positive review of
Mark Lilla's book for its analysis of the flawed "anti-truth"
irrational politics of thinkers like "Foucault, Derrida, Heidegger and
Schmitt", as opposed to the cautionary, wise politics of Morgenthau
(not mentioned by Lilla but upheld by Noorani).
A bit disappointing, coming from Noorani, but oh well.
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:53 PM, <c.ofarrell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Foucault's views on truth are the regular subject of media controversy -
> usually along the lines that he is a relativist, a nihilist, has no respect
> for the truth etc. etc.
>
> Has anybody seen any recent examples of this kind of discussion in the
> popular intellectual press?
>
> For an example see Raymond Tallis,
> Review article Dec 21 2001, Times Literary Supplement 'Foucault, as every
> schoolchild knows, denied that there were such things as objective truths'.
> -
> Clare
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reviewing a book on Hans Morgenthau, when he gave a positive review of
Mark Lilla's book for its analysis of the flawed "anti-truth"
irrational politics of thinkers like "Foucault, Derrida, Heidegger and
Schmitt", as opposed to the cautionary, wise politics of Morgenthau
(not mentioned by Lilla but upheld by Noorani).
A bit disappointing, coming from Noorani, but oh well.
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:53 PM, <c.ofarrell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Foucault's views on truth are the regular subject of media controversy -
> usually along the lines that he is a relativist, a nihilist, has no respect
> for the truth etc. etc.
>
> Has anybody seen any recent examples of this kind of discussion in the
> popular intellectual press?
>
> For an example see Raymond Tallis,
> Review article Dec 21 2001, Times Literary Supplement 'Foucault, as every
> schoolchild knows, denied that there were such things as objective truths'.
> -
> Clare
> *******************************************
> Clare O'Farrell
> http://www.michel-foucault.com
> *******************************************
> _______________________________________________
> Foucault-L mailing list
>
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Chetan Vemuri
West Des Moines, IA
aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx
(319)-512-9318
"You say you want a Revolution! Well you know, we all want to change the world"