[lbo-talk] more Foucault

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Thu Aug 31 22:09:52 PDT 2006


He had as much integrity as most of the academics I have known. That is, none.

Joanna

Jim Farmelant wrote:


>On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:01:10 -0400 "Charles Brown"
><cbrown at michiganlegal.org> writes:
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>>Michael Pugliese
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>>^^^^^
>>CB: From the text below, seems like Foucault and the gang merged
>>into
>>liberalism,( Just-in-time neo-liberalism) with special opportunist
>>emphasis
>>on anti-Communism and anti-Sovietism ,and fancy terminology.
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>>Neo-opportunist and neo-anti-communist,which ain't neo.
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>>^^^^^^^
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>With Foucault his politics seemed to do a bit of oscillation.
>Back when he was a student at the Ecole Normale, he joined
>the PCF. And his earliest published writings were Marxist.
>Then he declared himself to be a "Nietzschean" in the 1950s
>and he became an avowed anticommunist. Indeed in the
>early 1960s he served on a commission that was considering
>educational reform proposals for de Gaulle's government.
>At that time, most of his acquaintances assumed Foucault
>to be a Gaullist. In the mid-1960s he taught in Tunisia,
>and there he became radicalized. Many of his best students
>there were Communists. When he returned to France, he like
>many other intellectuals became caught up in the events of
>May 1968 and their aftermath. Like Sartre, de Beauvoir, Althusser
>etc., he was strongly supprtive of the young Maoists.
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>>Foucault the Neohumanist?
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>>By RICHARD WOLIN
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