:: Thursday, May 23, 2002 ::
"Foucault values the brilliant opacity, the dark superficiality, the casual profundity of those writers who inhabit the silent places left by the discourse of 'normal' men. His debt to them would permit us to place him among the anarchists--if he shared their utopian optimism; or among the nihilists--if he possessed any standard by which to justify his preference for 'nothing' over 'something'. But Foucault has none of the directness of his heroes. He cannot say anything directly. And this because he has no confidence in the power of words to represent either 'things' or 'thoughts'." -Hayden White
maybe this is why I quote instead of speak...
:: Jim Nichols 5/23/2002 01:01:00 AM [+] ::
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