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C. 17 (1962): 771-72. 28. Hunt, "French History in the Last Twenty Years," p. 217. 29. , p. 221). Hunt also sees Elias's work as developing the theme of power—power of value-setting elites. Foucault's History of Culture 35 to one. For Foucault, power is a strategy attributable to functions (dispositions, maneuvers, tactics, techniques). Power does not originate in either the economy or politics, and it is not grounded there. "30 Power not only represses; it also creates. Most challenging of all is the realization that power creates truth and hence its own legitimation.

15 Foucault understood the evaluation. His acerbic response to Leonard's damning praise is worth noting in some detail, because it is both a self-justification of Foucault as historian and a trenchant observation by Foucault of the state of historical writing. " He agreed with Leonard that the "stereotypical" historian has a variety of thankless roles: the virtuous knight of accuracy ("I don't have many ideas but at least what I say is true"); the doctor of inexhaustible information ("You haven't said anything about this thing or that, or even that which I know about and you are certainly ignorant of"); the great witness of Reality ("No grand systems but life, real life, with all its contradictory riches"); the heartbroken scholar who weeps over his little piece of earth just pillaged by barbarians: just as if after Attila the grass would not grow again.

16 In railing against the narrowness, pettiness, and sterility of historians, he is not a barbarian but a reformer calling for something better, something grander. We, like Leonard, sense the audacity and hear the battle cry. Critics have insisted and continue to insist that Foucault intended in his work to undermine the legitimacy of history, and of all disciplines, as exclusionary and limiting of knowledge. " Megill concludes that 15. Jacques Leonard, "L'Historien et le philosophe. A propos de: Surveiller et punir; naissance de la prison," in L'lmpossible prison, ed.

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