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There seem to be four different strategies to defend the ethical impetus of
MF's poststructuralism:
1. Look what he has done! He was engaged in highly political 
activities (fought for prisoners e.a.)
2. The kind of acting and reacting practiced by ps is different, 
subversive, seemingly marginal ...
3. Prescriptive Ethics is dangerous in any fashion. MF didn't write 
an "Ethica" and who says that he ought to? He analyses.
4. An "ethics of alterity" is implicitly intended by MF.

Now, what I'm interested in is this: Can we find any  connection 
between MF's deeds and his remark on the political will (Erik's 
quote) on the one side and his theoretical, analytical work on the 
other. Are there priciples of discourse analysis that lead to 
priciples of forming a political will? I always thought that the 
ontological implications of Foucaults analysis make it impossible to 
have any principles, even the most general ones (equality, alterity 
etc.). How can an ethics of alterity be derived from his works?

Dirk. Bahlo. Bochum.

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