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 67
... Nietzsche , I had become a stranger to all that . " 2 In the preface he published to Madness and Civilization in 1961 , Foucault summarized his projected lifework in terms that suggest the profundity of Nietzsche's impact on him in ...
... Nietzsche , I had become a stranger to all that . " 2 In the preface he published to Madness and Civilization in 1961 , Foucault summarized his projected lifework in terms that suggest the profundity of Nietzsche's impact on him in ...
Page 68
... Nietzsche's effort to find his own purpose , his own " higher necessity . " The Untimely Meditations , he later explained , offer " a vision of my future , ... my innermost history , my becoming . " Above all , it was the essay that he ...
... Nietzsche's effort to find his own purpose , his own " higher necessity . " The Untimely Meditations , he later explained , offer " a vision of my future , ... my innermost history , my becoming . " Above all , it was the essay that he ...
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... Nietzsche's thinking with the hermetic abstractness of Heidegger's style of writing . Far from being an atavism from a remote era of dark superstition , the " Demon , " Foucault suggests , is " something strange and unsettling that ...
... Nietzsche's thinking with the hermetic abstractness of Heidegger's style of writing . Far from being an atavism from a remote era of dark superstition , the " Demon , " Foucault suggests , is " something strange and unsettling that ...
Contents
THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR | 13 |
WAITING FOR GODOT | 37 |
THE HEART LAID BARE | 66 |
Copyright | |
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