Rob Schaap on Foucault

Ian Murray seamus2001 at home.com
Tue Jun 12 07:31:47 PDT 2001



>So, Foucault's theory has a
> pessimistic cast especially in his Weberian strain, for he
> practically argues that modernity represents no progress whatsoever
> over the pre-modern state of affairs & that there is no way out of
> the iron cage that he describes, only an ever-present dialectic of
> power & resistance to it. That -- substitution of modernity for
> class relations as the cause of un-freedom -- is a theoretical
error.
>
> Yoshie
=========== As for the last sentence, some explication please that transcends or precludes incommensurability and does not make use of inference to best explanation strategies....

Ian



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