[lbo-talk] Prose Style, was Time to Get Religion

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Dec 7 12:10:41 PST 2006


On Dec 7, 2006, at 2:53 PM, bitch wrote:


> Which is to say, Chomsky characterizes Foucault as suggesting that
> what he's about is criticizing the content of of the concept of
> human nature C offered. But foucault is not. He is denying that
> there is a human nature at all.

According to that piece on Chomsky's political philosophy by I can remember who in NLR about 10 years ago, Noam believes that we're all hardwired for freedom, and it's only external distortions (e.g., a bad state) that inhibit us from realizing this inner essence.

Doug



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