INTELLECTUALS & THE DIVISION OF LABOR--SARTRE ET AL

[MSalter1@aol.com]

In a message dated 04/07/97 07:50:59 GMT, 
<< malgosia askanas wrote:
 
 >I think I'll take in a little dose of
 >Foucault or Deleuze to restore my faith.
 
 Foucault I won't argue with; as much as I disagree with him, he's a serious
 guy who's worth reading. But Deleuze? Please explain to me the value of
 Deleuze. His & his sidekick Guattari's stuff just reads to me like the
 ravings of an acid casualty.
 
 >>
Deleuze's early book on nietzsche contains the best thing I've ever read on a
point by point contrast between Nietzscheanism and dialectics, the fact that
the negation of dialectics is itself part of a dialectical movement - a point
that Foucault is smart enough to recognise albeit as a dread of a possible
recoil upon his own anti-hegelianism - is at least responded to. 

Michael Salter