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 82
... Blanchot - a critic preoccupied , like both Barraqué and Foucault , with the relationship between the formal unities of an artwork and the anguish of the artist haunted by death . 56 In the 1950s , Maurice Blanchot was one of France's ...
... Blanchot - a critic preoccupied , like both Barraqué and Foucault , with the relationship between the formal unities of an artwork and the anguish of the artist haunted by death . 56 In the 1950s , Maurice Blanchot was one of France's ...
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... Blanchot's work . When a writer like Blanchot ( or Heidegger , for that matter ) takes language to its limits , “ what it finds , " Foucault writes , " is not a positivity that contradicts it , but the void that will obliterate it ...
... Blanchot's work . When a writer like Blanchot ( or Heidegger , for that matter ) takes language to its limits , “ what it finds , " Foucault writes , " is not a positivity that contradicts it , but the void that will obliterate it ...
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... Blanchot was a connoisseur of modernism : in the late 1940s and 1950s , he devoted incisive essays to the poets Baudelaire , Rimbaud , Mallarmé , Rilke , and René Char ; and to the novelists and short - story writers Kafka , Beckett ...
... Blanchot was a connoisseur of modernism : in the late 1940s and 1950s , he devoted incisive essays to the poets Baudelaire , Rimbaud , Mallarmé , Rilke , and René Char ; and to the novelists and short - story writers Kafka , Beckett ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR | 13 |
WAITING FOR GODOT | 37 |
Copyright | |
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