Re: 2 Foucaults

Ferda:

thanks for answering my question so carefully and concisely.  I was 
aware of Rorty's mild mannered liberalism, though I didn't know his 
reading of Foucault pervaded the american reception so deeply as to 
define an "American Foucault".  This is unfortunate, since, from what I 
grasp of R's liberal, pragmatic reductions of continental theorists 
generally, much is lost.    

Perhaps I'm missing some earlier posts that would clarify things for me, 
but when you refer to the AMerican Foucault, are you referring only to 
this conference in 1988 and Rorty's contribution, or can one speak more 
generally about an American Foucault.  Americans like nancy Fraser would 
support the American Foucault as liberal thesis, but how would Dreyfus 
and Rabinow fit into this american reception? Or more recent works like 
David Halprin's "Saint Foucault". 

sb