Foucault-L mail-list

It seems to me that just as the intellectual history of the 19th 
century can be distilled down to two seminal names, Marx and 
Nietzsche, that of the 20th C is encapsulated in the names Weber and 
Foucault. The intimate connections between them are increasingly 
being made clear by a number of scholarly works and articles. The 
consensus being that both shared a concern for the inscription of 
power upon the modern body. But is this not the result of simply 
concentrating upon two of the most popular works of these thinkers, 
that of the _Protestant Ethic_ and _Discipline and Punish_ 
respectively? What if we broaden our perspective to encompass their 
entire oeuvre? What consonances do we find now? Perhaps now it is 
embodied in their historical analysis of the social production types 
of modern rationality? This seems rather clear in reference to Weber, 
but cloudier when applied to Foucault, especially in regards to his 
earlier works. Can we see this concern binding together _Madness and 
Civilization_ , _The Order of Things_ and _Discipline and Punish_? 
What do the list members think? Is the analysis of a historical 
episteme in _Order of Things_ centered on a form of discriminating 
judgement, of the disappearance of a world of undifferentiated 
similitude and its replacement by a world founded in the anxious need 
for rigorous analysis, a prefiguring- on an archeological level, that 
is, on the level of formations of discourse- what _Discipline and 
Punish_ does on a genealogical level, on the level of material 
practices? Can the common dominator for both historical accounts be 
simply reduced to a concern for elucidating modern forms of 
rationality? Or do list members see another binding thread here? 
What, in the list members opinions, are the best scholarly works 
treating the convergences [or for that matter divergences] between 
_Order of Things_ and _Discipline and Punish_?  I look forward to 
your responses.
best
bradley

"Of all writings I love only those which the writer writeth with his 
blood. Write in blood, and thou shalt learn that blood is spirit"
Nietzsche. "Thus Spake Zarathustra".