Thanks, that's really useful.
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:13 PM, michael bibby <shmickeyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Perhaps to give an indication of how Creative Evolution and The Order of
> Things can be read together it is sufficient to juxtapose these passages
> taken from each of them:
>
> "All around conceptual thought there remains an indistinct fringe which
> recalls its origin."
>
> "that space which is, for thought, on the otherside, but in which it never
> ceased to think from the very beginning."
>
> All the best.
>
> "I think it’s important to have a small number of authors with whom
> one thinks, with whom one works, but on whom one does not write."
>
>
> --- On Fri, 1/10/10, Chetan Vemuri <aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Chetan Vemuri <aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: [Foucault-L] Primary works
> > To: "Mailing-list" <foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Received: Friday, 1 October, 2010, 5:39 AM
> > Is Bergson really necessary in terms
> > of Foucault's sources? What about
> > The Normal and the Pathological by Georges Canguilhem? I'd
> > also throw
> > in anything by Gaston Bachelard. If you're interested, you
> > could also
> > read Paul Feyeraband. He's not a Foucauldian but he was
> > contemparaneous, was influenced by Bachelard, and dealt
> > with parallel
> > issues.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:17 AM, michael bibby <shmickeyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > I can do the opposite Zulfiqar: rather than provide
> > you with secondary material on the Order of Things (no doubt
> > your aware of the problems such 'commentary' poses, given
> > the treatment which 'commentary' receives there), I can
> > provide you with one of the source materials for this book,
> > one of those books which Foucault seems to have been working
> > closely with and writing his own alongside, and that is
> > Henry Bergson's Creative Evolution, writen in 1907 and
> > canonical for two generations of European scholars before it
> > fell into relative obscurity. Another book worth taking a
> > look at in this connection is Oswald Spengler's Decline of
> > the West, writen in 1918 and enjoying a similiar popularity
> > before the war.
> > >
> > > All the best.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- On Tue, 28/9/10, Zulfiqar Ali Philosophy <zali@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> From: Zulfiqar Ali Philosophy <zali@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> Subject: [Foucault-L] secondary works
> > >> To: foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >> Received: Tuesday, 28 September, 2010, 5:30 PM
> > >> I have recently finished my Ph. D.
> > >> work on Foucault in relation to Marx. I
> > >> am looking for major critiques on the issue of
> > *epistme
> > >> *and on the major
> > >> argument of The Order of Things. I request all of
> > you to
> > >> kindly identify the
> > >> books or articles in this regard.
> > >>
> > >> Zulfiqar Ali
> > >> Pakistan
> > >> _______________________________________________
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> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
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> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Chetan Vemuri
> > West Des Moines, IA
> > aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx
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> > to change the world"
> >
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On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:13 PM, michael bibby <shmickeyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Perhaps to give an indication of how Creative Evolution and The Order of
> Things can be read together it is sufficient to juxtapose these passages
> taken from each of them:
>
> "All around conceptual thought there remains an indistinct fringe which
> recalls its origin."
>
> "that space which is, for thought, on the otherside, but in which it never
> ceased to think from the very beginning."
>
> All the best.
>
> "I think it’s important to have a small number of authors with whom
> one thinks, with whom one works, but on whom one does not write."
>
>
> --- On Fri, 1/10/10, Chetan Vemuri <aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Chetan Vemuri <aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: [Foucault-L] Primary works
> > To: "Mailing-list" <foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Received: Friday, 1 October, 2010, 5:39 AM
> > Is Bergson really necessary in terms
> > of Foucault's sources? What about
> > The Normal and the Pathological by Georges Canguilhem? I'd
> > also throw
> > in anything by Gaston Bachelard. If you're interested, you
> > could also
> > read Paul Feyeraband. He's not a Foucauldian but he was
> > contemparaneous, was influenced by Bachelard, and dealt
> > with parallel
> > issues.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:17 AM, michael bibby <shmickeyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > I can do the opposite Zulfiqar: rather than provide
> > you with secondary material on the Order of Things (no doubt
> > your aware of the problems such 'commentary' poses, given
> > the treatment which 'commentary' receives there), I can
> > provide you with one of the source materials for this book,
> > one of those books which Foucault seems to have been working
> > closely with and writing his own alongside, and that is
> > Henry Bergson's Creative Evolution, writen in 1907 and
> > canonical for two generations of European scholars before it
> > fell into relative obscurity. Another book worth taking a
> > look at in this connection is Oswald Spengler's Decline of
> > the West, writen in 1918 and enjoying a similiar popularity
> > before the war.
> > >
> > > All the best.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- On Tue, 28/9/10, Zulfiqar Ali Philosophy <zali@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> From: Zulfiqar Ali Philosophy <zali@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> Subject: [Foucault-L] secondary works
> > >> To: foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >> Received: Tuesday, 28 September, 2010, 5:30 PM
> > >> I have recently finished my Ph. D.
> > >> work on Foucault in relation to Marx. I
> > >> am looking for major critiques on the issue of
> > *epistme
> > >> *and on the major
> > >> argument of The Order of Things. I request all of
> > you to
> > >> kindly identify the
> > >> books or articles in this regard.
> > >>
> > >> Zulfiqar Ali
> > >> Pakistan
> > >> _______________________________________________
> > >> Foucault-L mailing list
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Foucault-L mailing list
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Chetan Vemuri
> > West Des Moines, IA
> > aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx
> > (319)-512-9318
> begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (319)-512-9318 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
> begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (319)-512-9318 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
> begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (319)-512-9318 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
> begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (319)-512-9318 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
> > "You say you want a Revolution! Well you know, we all want
> > to change the world"
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Foucault-L mailing list
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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