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 142
... practices traverse all of these facets of the human being , enclosing and cultivating the field of possible experience ... practice , ' I mean a certain way T of regulating and constructing discourses that define , in 142 The Passion of ...
... practices traverse all of these facets of the human being , enclosing and cultivating the field of possible experience ... practice , ' I mean a certain way T of regulating and constructing discourses that define , in 142 The Passion of ...
Page 216
... practice of smearing the wrongdoer with honey and leaving him in the blazing sun for the flies . " 25 As the very gaiety of Nietzsche's tone suggests , the spectacle of such punishments long offered human beings pleasure as well as pain ...
... practice of smearing the wrongdoer with honey and leaving him in the blazing sun for the flies . " 25 As the very gaiety of Nietzsche's tone suggests , the spectacle of such punishments long offered human beings pleasure as well as pain ...
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... practice , to escape ( in Foucault's words ) from " the austere monarchy of sex ? " If our dreams , as he had argued in 1953 , " throw into bright light the secret and hidden power at work in the most manifest forms of presence , " was ...
... practice , to escape ( in Foucault's words ) from " the austere monarchy of sex ? " If our dreams , as he had argued in 1953 , " throw into bright light the secret and hidden power at work in the most manifest forms of presence , " was ...
Contents
THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR | 13 |
WAITING FOR GODOT | 37 |
THE HEART LAID BARE | 66 |
Copyright | |
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