Re: A Preface to Transgression vs the dialectic

Sebastian Gurciullo wrote:

> I have recently read a chapter that Allan Stoekl devotes to Foucault in his
> book "Agonies of the intellectual".  He argues quite forcefully that a
> language/philosophy of transgression, in so far as it claims to replace or
> topple dialectical thinking is engaged in a kind of dialectical manouver
> itself.  [...] 
> Any claim to have somehow found a limit experience in something like 
> sexuality, madness, death, that transcends the usual confines of philosophical
> thinking is claiming to find an other, a hidden double of "man" which can be 
> recuperated even while one is ostensibly out to destroy the anthropological 
> conception of "man" itself.  Sexuality as limit experience, where speaking 
> breaks off, is itself recuperable in the dialectical movement if it somehow 
> captures something which normal (logocentric/rational etc) philosophising 
> experience cannot. 

It seems to me that this argument suffers from a somewhat shoddy approach
to notions like "find" and "capture".  What one "finds" in a limit experience
is "found" in a very different sense than when one "finds", say, a scientific
truth.  I think that if one posits a movement away from dialectical 
thinking and towards a language, or philosophy, of transgression, then one
is ipso facto positing a shift in meaning, within philosophy, of words such 
as "finding" and "capturing".  


-m