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
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>
> 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....).
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Rosser Jr, John Barkley
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