Rob Schaap on Foucault

Catherine Driscoll catherine.driscoll at adelaide.edu.au
Mon Jun 11 05:50:49 PDT 2001


Risking Doug's automated wrath, I want to say I think the two are completely inseparable.

Catherine

----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> Date: Monday, June 11, 2001 9:16 pm Subject: Re: Rob Schaap on Foucault


> 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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