Like I've mentioned before, the influence of Heidegger on Foucault is obvious. That's where he gets his whole the system is determined by power thing (power being a substitute for "presence"). In Derrida it's even more obvious (and explicit). Anyway I was never much interested in that period of French thought, which the exception of the very early and very late Derrida.
Personally I think that the idea that Heidegger could replace Marx, or anybody doing history/sociology/political economy, is silly. They were concerned with totally different questions and operated on different planes. It would be like replacing Newton with Freud.
--- On Thu, 4/9/09, James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> From: James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Note of thanks
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thursday, April 9, 2009, 9:46 AM
> "Way way way back in grad school, I
> thought about one day writing a study of Heidegger's
> influence on rightwing, liberal, and Marxist thought, using
> Straus, Arendt, and Marcuse as my examples."
>
> There is quite a good book by Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut
> about how the post-modern left took up Heidegger as a
> substitute for the 'disappointing' Marx
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