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 134
... idea that the world is one vast text , he was swept away , not simply by his own exquisitely refined powers of interpretation , but also by the prospect of creating a rigorous new science of signs . Tel quel quickly followed his lead By ...
... idea that the world is one vast text , he was swept away , not simply by his own exquisitely refined powers of interpretation , but also by the prospect of creating a rigorous new science of signs . Tel quel quickly followed his lead By ...
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... Ideas " into objects of possible experience , and thus apparently bridging the chasm between the empirical and transcendental : " How great a gulf may still have to be left between the idea [ of reason ] and its realization [ in ...
... Ideas " into objects of possible experience , and thus apparently bridging the chasm between the empirical and transcendental : " How great a gulf may still have to be left between the idea [ of reason ] and its realization [ in ...
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... idea in Architecture offered , he wrote , " the diagram of a mechanism of power reduced to its ideal form " ; it ... idea of “ panopticism " illuminated a host of real institutions that were in the process of transforming modern life ...
... idea in Architecture offered , he wrote , " the diagram of a mechanism of power reduced to its ideal form " ; it ... idea of “ panopticism " illuminated a host of real institutions that were in the process of transforming modern life ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR | 13 |
WAITING FOR GODOT | 37 |
Copyright | |
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