The Passion of Michel FoucaultBased on extensive new research and a bold interpretation of the man and his texts, The Passion of Michel Foucault is a startling look at one of this century's most influential philosophers. It chronicles every stage of Foucault's personal and professional odyssey, from his early interest in dreams to his final preoccupation with sexuality and the nature of personal identity. |
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... Civilization ) . Was the great actor simply out of his mind ? Or - bizarre idea - was he , as Foucault would imply , a modern prophet like Nietzsche's Zara- thustra ? As André Gide later recalled , the audience leaving the theater that ...
... Civilization ) . Was the great actor simply out of his mind ? Or - bizarre idea - was he , as Foucault would imply , a modern prophet like Nietzsche's Zara- thustra ? As André Gide later recalled , the audience leaving the theater that ...
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... Civilization . " When I reached manhood , " Char writes , " I saw rising and growing upon the wall shared by life and death a ladder ever more bare , invested with a power of unique evulsion : the dream . " That the dream could extract ...
... Civilization . " When I reached manhood , " Char writes , " I saw rising and growing upon the wall shared by life and death a ladder ever more bare , invested with a power of unique evulsion : the dream . " That the dream could extract ...
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... Civilization . He even issued a kind of methodological mea culpa , declaring in 1969 that " Madness and Civilization accorded far too great a place , and a very enig- matic one too , to what is called an ' experience . ' " He realized ...
... Civilization . He even issued a kind of methodological mea culpa , declaring in 1969 that " Madness and Civilization accorded far too great a place , and a very enig- matic one too , to what is called an ' experience . ' " He realized ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR | 13 |
WAITING FOR GODOT | 37 |
Copyright | |
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