Rob Schaap on Foucault

[Jim Farmelant]

I was wondering what Rob's take is on Justin's approach to
Foucault, that of separating out the Foucault who was a sociologist
of knowledge (who Justin admires greatly) from the Foucault
who was a pomo philosopher (for whom Justin has much less
admiration)?

Jim F.

 
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 21:07:55 +1100 Rob Schaap
<rws at comedu.canberra.edu.au> writes:
> 
> >One beauty of claiming a bit of essence is that one gets to frame 
> this
> >sorta stuff as alienation therefrom - and I do.  They're welcome to 
> their
> >barebacking and 'abstinence', of course.  Whatever's constraining 
> 'em, it'll
> >never be me.
> 
> Now I'm waay over ... but I need to clarify
> 
> More accurately, the saying of one thing and the doing - or the 
> wanting to
> do - of another is what I was referring to.  As I said before, I see 
> no
> scientific need to posit a norm for sexual practice itself.
> 
> Cheers,
> Rob.
> 
> 
> 
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