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 176
... offered senior slots to Michel Serres , a polymath trained in mathematics yet fascinated by literature ; and to François Cha- telet , a slightly older scholar who also combined to an unusual degree erudition and imagination . Both were ...
... offered senior slots to Michel Serres , a polymath trained in mathematics yet fascinated by literature ; and to François Cha- telet , a slightly older scholar who also combined to an unusual degree erudition and imagination . Both were ...
Page 465
... offered me another kind of model ; and with Leonard Michaels , whose gift for evoking dark passions with loving precision I often had cause to envy . Given my initial ignorance about the gay community , and also about consensual sado ...
... offered me another kind of model ; and with Leonard Michaels , whose gift for evoking dark passions with loving precision I often had cause to envy . Given my initial ignorance about the gay community , and also about consensual sado ...
Page 466
... offered interesting parallels to what I was trying to do . I also learned much from my conversations with a variety of philoso- phers , particularly Stanley Cavell , whose Emersonian reflections on Nietzsche have left their mark on my ...
... offered interesting parallels to what I was trying to do . I also learned much from my conversations with a variety of philoso- phers , particularly Stanley Cavell , whose Emersonian reflections on Nietzsche have left their mark on my ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR | 13 |
WAITING FOR GODOT | 37 |
Copyright | |
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