[lbo-talk] Avoiding Bad Taste

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Fri Oct 8 14:44:40 PDT 2004


On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Ted Winslow wrote:


> Neitzsche and Foucault claim that radical skepticism including the
> treatment of values as wholly subjective is the product of the working
> of this "authenticity." They also claim (inconsistently as Heidegger
> points out in the case of Nietzsche (pp. 213-4)) that this (radical
> skepticism) frees us for guilt free enjoyment of this "authenticity" -
> "the primordial pleasure to be found in causing pain."
>
> Ted

I know you're probably just pulling my chain, but where do you get this stuff? Try actually reading Foucault or Nietzsche rather than relying on second-hand sources, and I suspect you'll stop posting goofy canards like the one above.

Miles



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