Word: foucault
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...devoted himself to keeping ghetto kids out of trouble. He also believes it's his Christian duty to verbally slap the black establishment upside the head when it's falling down on its job. In 1992, for example, he infuriated black intellectuals by accusing them of endlessly debating "Gramsci, Foucault, Derrida, Jameson, Bourdieu, Lukacs, Habermas, and Marx" instead of trying to find solutions to inner-city crime and drug abuse. Three years later, he excoriated them for romanticizing "cynically anti-Semitic, mean-spirited, and simply incompetent" demagogues such as Louis Farrakhan while the underclass plunged into misery...
...take philosophy itself for granted. If one can easily approach and understand Kant and Aristotle, and one need only look to them to inform contemporary disputes, they become decidedly less lovely. And if one doesn't love Kant and Aristotle, can one really find solace in Marx or Foucault...
...establishment. He was reported to have proclaimed at that time, "This professorship will help reveal the truth about Turkey!" Over a year later, not a single History Department course description includes the words "Armenian Genocide." To what truth was Mr. Kandemir referring? Perhaps it was what philosopher Michel Foucault dubbed a "regime of truth," sanctioned and paid for by a political entity; many universities have become Turkey's willing agents in this endeavor...
...response to Marc Ambinder's "Here Come the Gender Theorists," (Opinion, March 11, 1999), I would like to point out Ambinder's basic misunderstanding of gender theory. Deconstructive gender theory, which includes the writings of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, but also scholars such as Diana Fuss, Eve Sedgwick and Kaja Silverman to name a few, examines the social meanings attached to categories of masculinity and femininity. It does not deny that anatomical sex determines whether one is male or female but suggests that the value placed on these categories is culturally determined. In the first page of Bodies That...
...response to Marc Ambinder's "Here Come the Gender Theorists," (Opinion, March 11, 1999), I would like to point out Ambinder's basic misunderstanding of gender theory. Deconstructive gender theory, which includes the writings of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, but also scholars such as Diana Fuss, Eve Sedgwick and Kaja Silverman to name a few, examines the social meanings attached to categories of masculinity and femininity. It does not deny that anatomical sex determines whether one is male or female but suggests that the value placed on these categories is culturally determined. In the first page of Bodies That...