====================== HES POSTING ====================== Ross Emmett wrote: >The essay begins: > >"To do the genealogy, rather than the history, of political economy >involves attempting to understand how, at a given moment, it succeeded in >organising the production of truth, rather than recounting its progress >towards scientific rigour or the way in which it followed the development >of the economy itself. >To what Michel Foucault called a *savoir* and what Paul Veyne calls a >'programme of truth', genealogy does not pose the question of the >truthfulness of what it says. By rediscovering how, against what other >discourses, it succeeded in imposing itself, it addresses the question of >the pertinence of the truth it constructs." > >Meuret, Denis. 1993. A political genealogy of political economy. In >_Foucault's New Domains_, ed. Mike Gane and Terry Johnson, 49-74. >London: Routledge. Can anyone tell me what this means--or if it means anything at all? Brad De Long ================ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ================ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]