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

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At 04:53 PM 12/7/2006, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> >
> > Now C doesn't know all this b/c he doesn't
> > aprticipate in those discussions
> > but is, for some reason, considered a heavy weight
> > who did happen to know them.
>
>Maybe Chomsky is considered a heavyweight because he
>is the pre-eminent linguistics scholar of all time
>whose works set the standard and provide the received
>view for all to attack and modify.
>
>Actually I thinkj he understands F better than you
>suggest. C's human nature is pretty thin, basically a
>capacity to speak gramatically and produce new
>sentences. He also holds that there is sort of an
>instinct to be free, but Foucault agrees with this, as
>noted in a previous post, he holds that while
>domination is inescapable, resistance to it is
>inevitable. So actually they are on the same page on
>this point about human nature. For the rest, F likes
>to play up constructivist stories about human history,
>while C likes to talk about the evils of imperialism,
>so they are not singing from the same hymnbook.

what was the quote from Foucault which makes you think this about Foucault? 
you asked a question, you didn't quote F. do you have quotes from his work 
in general where F says anything to back this up?

god. now i have to content with you being another chomsky fan who can't 
stand it when someone criticizes him. oh, the blaspheme!

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