Thu Oct 19 20:40:27 1995<BR>From: Jeffrey Cohen (jjcohen@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu) <BR> Have you looked at Derrida's "Structure, Sign, and play in the discourses of the human sciences"?  (I didn't see it in your bibliography).  The prohibition of incest (which, as Foucault points out, is really its invention) is supposed to be the foundational moment for culture.  As such, it is a universal.  But universals characterize nature, not culture.  Therefore the incest prohibition is a scandal:  no law is supposed to be universal;  culture is contingent.  But there couldn't be culture without a universal law so .. round and round we go.  Nature and culture collapse at thier very point of origin.  That (argues Derrida) is the real scandal:  "It could be said that the whole of philosophical conceptualization, which is systematic with the nature/culture opposition, is designed to leave to the domain of the unthinkable the very thing that makes this conceptualization possible."<BR>Another way of putting it:  the horror of culture is that it originates in, by, and through incest -- and cannot escape that category collapse, as your paper very well points out.<p>
 Sun Dec  3 19:38:03 1995<BR>From: ashk\@chelsea.ios.com <BR> Excellent !!  I am impressed by the organization<p>
 Fri Dec 15 20:50:20 1995<BR>From: Jose de Golferichs <BR> Ponte a jalar Leslie!!!!