On May 9, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Jonathan Rée argues that Foucault was more clear-sighted about the Iranian revolution than many critics of his give him credit for, and he in fact registered his objection to the government that came out of the revolution:
Dabashi, again, at 40:39: "Michel Foucault was absolutely and deadly wrong. He went to Tehran looking for an Islamist revolution and came out with a series of cockamamie articles for Corriere della Sera reading an Islamist aspect into the revolution. Why? Because his handlers were Islamists. The multiplicity of ideological foundations and political forces definitive to the revolution were right in front of his eyes but he couldn't see them."
