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>So how, as a politically engaged philosopher, was
>Foucault "active" in a laudable way? If his pessimism
>presents a snag to notions of recontesting, how did
>he, or how could one justify his political activism,
>such as it was? He couldn't have been that
>pessimistic if he was that engaged.
>
>If the theory or episteme in question, exemplified by
>_Discipline and Punish_, didn't inform his political
>work, what did?
When challenged as to whether his political activism for gay and mental health rights, etc., was consistent with his philosophy, F had the following colloquoy: Why then (interviewer asks) should we be onthe left? Ah, replied F, let's ask not why but how.
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