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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... once it had become fashionable in France to dismiss both Althusser and Marxism out of hand , Foucault stood loyally by his old mentor and privately rebuked those who criticized him . 65 But as events would show , Althusser's most ...
... once it had become fashionable in France to dismiss both Althusser and Marxism out of hand , Foucault stood loyally by his old mentor and privately rebuked those who criticized him . 65 But as events would show , Althusser's most ...
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... once more stirring under our feet . " 5 Refining what his friend Gilles Deleuze once called a " rarified positivism , which is itself poetic , " Foucault's style in these works reached a new pitch of hermetic abstractness . He deployed ...
... once more stirring under our feet . " 5 Refining what his friend Gilles Deleuze once called a " rarified positivism , which is itself poetic , " Foucault's style in these works reached a new pitch of hermetic abstractness . He deployed ...
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... once remarked , The Order of Things is a " malicious gift . " For Foucault's approach once again has the curious effect of causing the object under investigation to crumble before our eyes : just as " madness " was stripped of its self ...
... once remarked , The Order of Things is a " malicious gift . " For Foucault's approach once again has the curious effect of causing the object under investigation to crumble before our eyes : just as " madness " was stripped of its self ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR | 13 |
WAITING FOR GODOT | 37 |
Copyright | |
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