July 06, 2006
A Clip From the Chomsky-Foucault Debate
As the Chomsky wars continue over at Crooked Timber and Delong's blog, Dan Balis sends me this clip. In the early 1970s Fons Elders hosted a series of debates on issues in philosophy for Dutch television. The most famous of these debates was one between Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky. (Rumor has it that Foucault was paid in marijuana.) The transcripts of all the debates are available (the others are interesting too, but it's been a decade since I read the book) in Fons Elders ed., Reflexive Water: The Basic Concerns of Mankind (1974). Foucault vs. Chomsky on Justice and Power.
UPDATE: The second part of the clip can be found here. (Or click on the images.)
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I'd really like to see more of this, thanks.
Posted by: Nathaniel Frentz | Jul 6, 2006 1:42:44 PM
You can find the transcript here.
The book is worth reading; I recall the debate between Leszek Kolakowski and Henri Lefebvre on evolution or revolution also being interesting. I don't remember the Karl Popper one.
Posted by: robin | Jul 6, 2006 2:07:34 PM
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