As I have brought up in earlier discussions, Discipline and Punish begins with the question of labor power, and ends with a lot of material from Capital. As to Nietzsche, Foucault's views are never as consistent many seem to want to make him, particularly in the later ethical work. Robert Wood
P.S. Butler has some good material on the questions that SA brought up in the earlier conversation on certitude in What is Critique (along with her response to Benhabib in the eighties.)
> That is something that has always struck me
> as being self-evident. What is Foucault's
> *Discipline and Punish*, if it isn't a Marxist-inspired
> work on criminal justice in capitalists societies.
>
> I think a lot of people get thrown because Foucault was
> a self-proclaimed Nietzschean who had the avowed goal
> of developing a genealogy of human knowledge (and
> who had renounced the French CP back in the early
> 1950s). But Foucault clearly used Marxist tools
> for his Nietzschean project.
>
> Jim F.
>
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> Subject: [lbo-talk] Marx without quotation marks
> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:24:16 -0700
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> Foucault in Power/Knowledge:
>
>
> "I often quote concepts, texts and phrases from Marx, but without
> feeling obliged to add the authenticating label of a footnote with a
> laudatory phrase to accompany the quotation. As long as one does
> that, one is regarded as someone who knows and reveres Marx, and will
> be suitably honoured in the so-called Marxist journals. But I quote
> Marx without saying so, without quotation marks, and because people
> are incapable of recognising Marx's texts I am thought to be someone
> who doesn't quote Marx. When a physicist writes a work of physics,
> does he feel it necessary to quote Newton and Einstein?"
>
> http://foucauldians.blogspot.com/2007/08/foucault-on-marx.html
>
>
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