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Re: Megill (was: A Preface to Transgression)


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+  From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>
+  Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 13:36:14 -0500
At 8:29 AM -0700 3/9/97, Sean Hill wrote:

>Once again I think you are trying to force a morality into Foucault when
>instead he's trying, for the sake of analysis, to suspend moral judgements
>in his examination of these practices.

Like I said, that's fine in art, but when it comes to social practice, that
kind of stance reduces to either snobbish detachment or a scary nihilism.
But I've made this point already, and you've made yours, and there's not
much point in continuing the exchange further.

Doug






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