Rob Schaap on Foucault

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Wed Jun 13 11:38:49 PDT 2001



> > It seems to me to be an insult to Irish nationalists & socialists to
>> compare criticisms of Foucault here to "Northern Ireland."
>=========
>Please don't tell me you think the dispute in NI is a good thing. The
>dispute between M's & F's is not ennobling of social theorists,
>either.
>
>>
>> Besides, I'm making an argument that one may learn from Foucault
>> without accepting his theoretical premises & conclusions. What is
>> your argument against my take? That one cannot learn from Foucault
>> without accepting his works wholesale?
>>
>> Yoshie
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>Zero-summing again aren't we? The same can be said for studying Marx.
>
>Ian

I accept the late Marx's theoretical premises & conclusions, but not the early Marx's.

Yoshie



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