A curious tidbit on this is that although the Ordo-Liberals were not Austrians, despite their support of market capitalism and opposition to central planning, Hayek ended his career at Freiburg. BTW, in my earlier message on all this I misspelled the German for "social market economy." It's sozialmarktwirtschaft. Barkley Rosser On Mon, 21 Apr 1997 12:39:23 -0700 (PDT) Tavis Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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....). -- Rosser Jr, John Barkley [EMAIL PROTECTED]