Can polemic be ethical?: A response to Michel Foucault

Polemic: Critical or Uncritical

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 135-152

  Crewe, Jonathan ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203020302     Document Type: Chapter

References (11)

1. "An Interview with Michel Foucault," in Paul Rabinow, ed., Foucault: A Reader (New York: Pantheon, 1984) 382.
2. Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, tr. Richard Howard (New York: Vintage Books, 1973);
3. See, for example, Raymond Anselment, "Twixt Jest and Earnest": Marprelate, Milton, Marvell, Swift and the Decorum of Religious Ridicule (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980);
4. Kristin Poole, "Saints Alive! Falstaff, Martin Marprelate, and the Staging of Puritanism," Shakespeare Quarterly, 46, 1. (Spring, 1995) 47-75.
5. But apparently not to anything like the same degree in the Roman world, in which disputes over particular orthodoxies or professions of faith were rare. See Mary Beard, John North and Simon Price, Religions of Rome: Volume 1, A History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
6. Alexandra Halasz, The Marketplace of Print: Pamphlets and the Public Sphere in Early Modern England (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
7. Thomas Nashe, "Preface to Sidney's 'Astrophil and Stella,'" The Works of Thomas Nashe, 5 vols., ed. R.B. McKerrow (1904-10), revised and reprinted F. P. Wilson, ed. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1966); III: 329.
8. Thomas Nashe, Christ's Teares over Jerusalem, Works, II: 35, 63.
9. Debora Kuller Shuger, The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice and Subjectivity (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994). "Anti-Judaic" rather than "anti-Semitic" only inasmuch as what we call anti-Semitism continues to be decisively shaped by the racial pseudoscience of the nineteenth century.
10. See G. R. Hibbard, Thomas Nashe: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1962) 123.
11. Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners, tr. Edmund Jephcott (New York: Urizen Books, 1978).