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From: "Anaspinoza" <anaspinoza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 19:21:17 -0300
Bob asked:
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>Where does Foucault say this, or for that mattter Wittgenstein?
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>Thanks :)
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>>About the links between Foucault and Wittgenstein (there are many,
specially
>>with the second Wittgenstein), I remember that Foucault took from
>>Wittgenstein the metaphore of the box of tools, when he says that anyone
>>can take his concepts as if they were tools, and use them without thinking
>>who created them.
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Both ideas are very well known in Foucault´s and in Wittgensteins writings.
The metaphor of Wittgenstein is in Philosophical Investigations. The one of
Foucault probably is in What is an author?, or perhaps -I´m not sure- in Les
mots et les choses.
Ana