A Blog for the Community of Rhetoric 10, The Rhetoric of Argument, "What Is Compelling?" taking place in Summer Session A, 2009, at the University of California at Berkeley.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Foucault readings?
Is anyone else super confused by the reading titles? They don't correspond to the syllabus. Dale, perhaps you have some insight?
I don't know if I am understanding you but, "We Other Victorians" is Part One of Foucault's "Hist. of Sex.: Vol. One". I am assuming the other selection is from "Discipline and Punish". I am wondering Dale maybe made a mistake when he called it "The Will To Knowledge" because in my book of Hist. of Sex. it doesn't call it that. But I don't know. Anyway, whatevs, we will just read it all!
It is true that there is something of an idiosyncrasy in the selections arranged in the reader. Essentially I have framed excerpts from Discipline and Punish with material from the preface and conclusion of Will to Knowledge -- this is because the first material is an int. complement to the Arendt you read for today, and the material from the concl. is more useful after you have read the material from D & P first.
The first selection, "We Other Victorians", is from History of Sexuality: Vol. I.
ReplyDeleteOh, so that is "The Will to Knowledge" ?
ReplyDeleteI don't know if I am understanding you but, "We Other Victorians" is Part One of Foucault's "Hist. of Sex.: Vol. One". I am assuming the other selection is from "Discipline and Punish". I am wondering Dale maybe made a mistake when he called it "The Will To Knowledge" because in my book of Hist. of Sex. it doesn't call it that. But I don't know. Anyway, whatevs, we will just read it all!
ReplyDeleteThe History of Sexuality is the name of the Project of which three volumes were published, the first of which you are reading an excerpt from. It's title, in French: Histoire de la sexualité, 1: la volonte de savoir. Given the historical context of James's Will to Believe and Nietzsche's Will to Power prior to Foucault's volume, it's well worth emphasizing the actual title of this volume even if it tends to be rather obscure to most English readers.
ReplyDeleteIt is true that there is something of an idiosyncrasy in the selections arranged in the reader. Essentially I have framed excerpts from Discipline and Punish with material from the preface and conclusion of Will to Knowledge -- this is because the first material is an int. complement to the Arendt you read for today, and the material from the concl. is more useful after you have read the material from D & P first.
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