I don't know anything about the Austrian School bit. Sympathy for English liberalism would indeed be surprising, since it goes against the grain of everything Foucault had written. As you know, he spends a lot of time both in Discipline and Punish and in the History of Sexuality V1 describing the way enlightenment thought was used to codify inappropriate behavior and create acceptable boundaries of social discourse and acceptable notions of freedom -- in effect, taking away freedom in the name of liberty -- that would continue current relations of power. Foucault never held the state as a center of power above, say, psychoanalytic terminology; while, in Discipline and Punish, he is talking about the way state power is used to imprison people, he does not view the state as using behavioral psychology any more than behavioral psychology using the state. One could, indeed, do a Foucauldian analysis of the discourse of the market and talk about how neoclassical notions of freedom -- the ability of individuals to buy and sell at prices they desire -- were created by those with property and defined explicitly so that the dscourse of property would not be questioned. Given that Foucault was a Marxist earlier in his life, it would be amazing if he did not see this. Do you know what Miller was referring to? Curious, Tavis On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Doug Henwood wrote: > Two footnotes: .... (2) In his book on Foucault, James Miller says that > Foucault developed, late in his life, a serious sympathy in Austrian > economics and English liberalism as limits to state power, and strategies > for maximizing the play of individual "will" (spectres of Nietzsche....).
