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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... effort to identify and uproot the " fascism in us all " had therefore to be ruthless and unrelenting : " How , " wondered Foucault , " does one keep from being fascist , even ( especially ) when one believes oneself to be a ...
... effort to identify and uproot the " fascism in us all " had therefore to be ruthless and unrelenting : " How , " wondered Foucault , " does one keep from being fascist , even ( especially ) when one believes oneself to be a ...
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... effort to live a life of ecstatic purity . Like Foucault , Origen supposed that the body , under the impact of a certain kind of " limit - experience❞— for the theologian , it was a yearning to receive God's wisdom - could become less ...
... effort to live a life of ecstatic purity . Like Foucault , Origen supposed that the body , under the impact of a certain kind of " limit - experience❞— for the theologian , it was a yearning to receive God's wisdom - could become less ...
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... effort , in practice , to escape ( in Foucault's words ) from " the austere monarchy of sex ? " If our dreams , as he had argued in 1953 , " throw into bright light the secret and hidden power at work in the most manifest forms of ...
... effort , in practice , to escape ( in Foucault's words ) from " the austere monarchy of sex ? " If our dreams , as he had argued in 1953 , " throw into bright light the secret and hidden power at work in the most manifest forms of ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR | 13 |
WAITING FOR GODOT | 37 |
Copyright | |
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