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From: ccw94@xxxxxxxxxx
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Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 15:43:48 +0100
Robert,
My apologies.
It comes from: Michel Foucault, 'Le souci de la verite (interview with
Francois Ewald), in Magazine Litteraire, no. 207, May 1984, p.18
Sorry i don't have an English source. (and I couldn't figure out how to get
the correct accents on, verite.)
Foucault elaborates in this interview a bit more of his reformulated notion
of truth arguing, "Nothing is more inconsistent than a political regime that
is indifferent to truth; but nothing is more dangerous than a political
system which claims to prescribe truth.....The task of speaking the truth is
an infinite labour: to respect it in its complexity is an obligation which
no power can pass over, except by imposing the silence of servitude." (Ibid,
p.23)
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"What I try to achieve is the history of the relations which
thought maintains with truth; the history of thought insofar as it is the
thought of truth. All those who say truth does not exist for me are
simple minded."
> (Foucault)
Colin Wight
Department of International Politics
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth
SY23 3DA
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