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From: Campbell Jones <campbell.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 08:21:16 +1100
At 10:13 04/02/98 -0500, Randall wrote:
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>The first sentence of
>his book claims that "we" supported a Victorian regime. Did you? What's he
>mean, if not including "you" and "me"?
I think that he means 'we' in a more general sense, here, refering to
something like 'the culture that we are in'. I wouldn't take Foucault's
openings (as in his other books) too literally.
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>this is a bit too Derridadadada-ish for me,
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Sorry????????
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>The fact is that the vast majority of United States citizen believe in God,
>of some sort of another.
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Really? Is this a 'fact'? Even if this were so, in what way would the
alleged beliefs of Americans refute the relevance of Nietzsche's discussion
of 'the death of god'?
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Campbell Jones
University of Otago
New Zealand
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