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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Page 103
... madness was an " invention , " a product of social relations - and not an independent biological reality . The impli- cations were dizzying . For if Foucault was right , Canguilhem observed , then " every previous history of the origins ...
... madness was an " invention , " a product of social relations - and not an independent biological reality . The impli- cations were dizzying . For if Foucault was right , Canguilhem observed , then " every previous history of the origins ...
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... madness , nothing , by definition , can be said . 53 But at the limit of madness - astride the line separating reason from unreason , balanced between the Dionysian and Apollonian - the " rudi- mentary " experience of madness is not ...
... madness , nothing , by definition , can be said . 53 But at the limit of madness - astride the line separating reason from unreason , balanced between the Dionysian and Apollonian - the " rudi- mentary " experience of madness is not ...
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... Madness and Civilization may now be summarized briefly : -It is not immoral to be convulsed by singular fantasies and wild impulses : such limit - experiences are to be valued as a way of winning back access to the occluded , Dionsyian ...
... Madness and Civilization may now be summarized briefly : -It is not immoral to be convulsed by singular fantasies and wild impulses : such limit - experiences are to be valued as a way of winning back access to the occluded , Dionsyian ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR | 13 |
WAITING FOR GODOT | 37 |
Copyright | |
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