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Hi Kevin

This is an interesting question - I'm not sure where Foucault theorised 
'practice' in general.  It might be useful to start from Althusser's 
concept of practice as elaborated in _For Marx_ (and on which there 
are, from memory, several commentaries by others published or 
unpublished) and look at how Foucault might have responded to, or 
perhaps incorporated, Althusser's concept of practice.  As Warren 
Montag and others have said, often there seems to have been a 
theoretical dialogue - explicit or implicit - between Althusser and 
Foucault.

I'm interested to read what others better read in Foucault - or perhaps 
just with better memories - than I have to say on this question of a 
general concept of practice in Foucault.  Perhaps it exists only in 
what Althusser termed 'the practical state' within Foucault's writings 
on various practices?

DM


On 28/06/2005, at 2:51 AM, François Gagnon wrote:

> Take a look at the index of Dits et Écrits... there's an impressive 
> list!
> François
>
> Kevin Turner a écrit :
>
> > can anybody point me in the direction of some texts that discuss f's 
> > usage
> > of the term practice: i.e. as in discourse-practice; but also in 
> > terms of
> > medical practice, disciplinary practices, governmental practice.
> >
> > regards - k
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