Rob Schaap on Foucault

Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us
Sat Jun 16 13:08:16 PDT 2001



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>CB: Well, Foucault's observation is an out of body "experience" ok for a
>moment, but he can't really stop being one kind of land-mammal on the
>Planet Earth except in his imagination.
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Very pragmatist of you, Charles!

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CB: I knew I had it in me. practical-critical activist, as they say, materialist.


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> But I suspect that a lot of us "don't want to be the kind of
>person who thinks that way", perhaps because we suspect that that kind of
>person is French.
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>CB: The French can't get out of most of the consequences of being a kind of
>land-mammal on the Planet Earth either.
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They don't _want_ to get out of some those consequences,a t least the corporeal ones; that's the nicest thing about them!

--jks

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CB: D'accord.



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