Re[2]: Foucault vs. Marx (fwd)

          Actually, Foucault uses what you call a mactro-analysis in a
          number of places; for instance, in his writings and lectures
          on governmentality, he discusses the emergence of teh
          "police" in the seventeenth century, and their concern for
          hte welfare of teh whole; in "The Politics of Health in the
          18th C." (Power/Knowledge), he discusses both the
          "totalizing" and "individualizing" functions of medicine -
          the "totalizng" cocneption of health stems from a coenption
          of hte health of society as awhole - especially conerning
          the spread of communicable diseases.  Also, in HS, he
          discusses the emergence of the concepion of "population" as
          an object of reflection, which shaped the development of a
          number of social sciences.  Certain of these sciences, such
          as "political economy," operate from a macro-analysis.
          According to Dreyfus and Rabinow, Foucault's methodology is
          "multidirectional" - going from the top down and from teh
          bottom up.  Foucault also has an approach to teh study of
          discourses which is predicated on an "ascending analysis" -
          going from the particular to the general.
          Joe C.