Re: Lack of examples

That's funny.  Here is a resource - this list - which could actually, 
perhaps, *provide* you with the examples you miss, if only you gave 
it enough specifics.  But precisely to the list, you choose to talk 
about it "in very general terms".  Seems rather quaint, no?

-m

> Glen wrote: "...for the purposes of providing examples perhaps you could
> indicate which part you are interested in?"
>
> List-wise, I meant it in very general terms; In the work I've read, I don't
> find that Foucault convinces the reader of his view with argument and
> example.  Rather he states his view, and tosses in a smattering of
> instances. In this way I find his writing style rather like Nietzsche. What
> he says is intriguing, but I'm not always sure I've understood it correctly.
>
> Personally, my interest is in technologies of the self.  But perhaps I feel
> comfortable with it precisely because he did use examples when discussing
> it.
>
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> Women Choosing Between Monogamous and Polyamorous Relationships."
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