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 33
... Roussel , " the anguish " of this individual , as well as the implications of his personal discoveries about the possible limits of reason , language , and human nature " makes the illness of this man our problem . " 61 Foucault's book ...
... Roussel , " the anguish " of this individual , as well as the implications of his personal discoveries about the possible limits of reason , language , and human nature " makes the illness of this man our problem . " 61 Foucault's book ...
Page 131
... Roussel's language - game , as Foucault describes it , eerily mirrors that of Bichat . Like the scientist , the ... Roussel affirms the constant presence of " death in life . " This presence , however , Roussel experienced not as an ...
... Roussel's language - game , as Foucault describes it , eerily mirrors that of Bichat . Like the scientist , the ... Roussel affirms the constant presence of " death in life . " This presence , however , Roussel experienced not as an ...
Page 132
... Roussel submitted himself to a variety of arbitrary but rigorous rules for composing his poems and novels . Obsessed ... Roussel's different methods , all of his writing teems with imagery that reveals the work as a whole to be a kind of ...
... Roussel submitted himself to a variety of arbitrary but rigorous rules for composing his poems and novels . Obsessed ... Roussel's different methods , all of his writing teems with imagery that reveals the work as a whole to be a kind of ...
Contents
THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR | 13 |
WAITING FOR GODOT | 37 |
THE HEART LAID BARE | 66 |
Copyright | |
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