The Passion of Michel Foucault

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Harvard University Press, 2000 - Biography & Autobiography - 491 pages
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Based 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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The first of these interviews occurred in 1978, in a conversation arranged by Jean
Le Bitoux in Paris; the second in 1982, in a conversation with Bob Gallagher and
Andrew Wilson in Toronto, Canada.” The Le Bitoux interview was a by-product ...
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Noam Chomsky interview, 16 January 1990. 143. Chomsky interview, 16 January
1990. 144. Chomsky interview, 16 January 1990. Foucault discussed the “
Chomsky hash" with Simeon Wade: see Wade, Foucault in California, p. 20. 145.
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Bersani interview 16 November 1989. 55. Bersani interview 16 November 1989.
56. For more on the legal status of S/M, and police harassment of the subculture,
see Gayle Rubin, “The Leather Menace: Comments on Politics and S/M," in ...

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Revelatory, well-written account of the controversial life and writings of French historian and philosopher Foucault. Miller (``Democracy is in the Streets'', 1987, etc.) makes it clear from the start ... Read full review

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Foucault has been acclaimed as one of France's most influential and certainly controversial 20th-century philosophers. Miller has thoroughly researched and presented Foucault's intellectual journey ... Read full review

Contents

THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR
13
WAITING FOR GODOT
37
THE HEART LAID BARE
66
Copyright

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James Miller is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Liberal Studies at the New School for Social Research.

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TitleThe Passion of Michel Foucault
AuthorsJames Miller, Jim Miller
Editionreprint
PublisherHarvard University Press, 2000
ISBN0674001575, 9780674001572
Length491 pages
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