Everybody needs to know these ideas are not a foundational ground of Western thought, but only a recent blip or pimple on it. Very, very recent. It has no age, no authority.
That chazzerai was dreamed up after WW II because nobody could think of anything else to make themselves interesting. France was poor for years after the war. People like this had to figure out something, to get funded.
This crap was all they could come up with. They were out of ideas. It was hard to have ideas in the ruins. Industrial life, so full of promise, had resulted in a big smoking pile of bodies. For the SECOND time. With the same players.
And France needed to feel like big boys and girls again, after having been defeated, humiliated, and occupied by the Germans.
Symbolically, having been raped, and they were, oh they were, literally, the Beautiful France had no option left, psychologically, except to say, "Sex is great! It was fun! I didn't mind a bit! So freeing!"
Foucault admitted he made that stuff up, to impress young men.
Yes. Good article.
Everybody needs to know these ideas are not a foundational ground of Western thought, but only a recent blip or pimple on it. Very, very recent. It has no age, no authority.
That chazzerai was dreamed up after WW II because nobody could think of anything else to make themselves interesting. France was poor for years after the war. People like this had to figure out something, to get funded.
This crap was all they could come up with. They were out of ideas. It was hard to have ideas in the ruins. Industrial life, so full of promise, had resulted in a big smoking pile of bodies. For the SECOND time. With the same players.
And France needed to feel like big boys and girls again, after having been defeated, humiliated, and occupied by the Germans.
Symbolically, having been raped, and they were, oh they were, literally, the Beautiful France had no option left, psychologically, except to say, "Sex is great! It was fun! I didn't mind a bit! So freeing!"
Foucault admitted he made that stuff up, to impress young men.