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 85
... Perhaps to dream of death was mad . Perhaps the experience of the void eluded every effort to communicate it . Perhaps the nihilism palpable in the death camps could find in a work that embraced the void no adequate response . Perhaps ...
... Perhaps to dream of death was mad . Perhaps the experience of the void eluded every effort to communicate it . Perhaps the nihilism palpable in the death camps could find in a work that embraced the void no adequate response . Perhaps ...
Page 122
... perhaps the poet on stage that night in 1947 would not have acted like a drowning man . Perhaps he would not have experienced his own most inescapable impulses as cruel , violent , insanely self - destructive . Perhaps he would no ...
... perhaps the poet on stage that night in 1947 would not have acted like a drowning man . Perhaps he would not have experienced his own most inescapable impulses as cruel , violent , insanely self - destructive . Perhaps he would no ...
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... perhaps mad , perhaps tragic - yet also perfectly fitting . Perhaps . Such are some of the facts surrounding the " terrible dioramas " described by Hervé Guibert , and a few of the related passages that spring to mind from the ...
... perhaps mad , perhaps tragic - yet also perfectly fitting . Perhaps . Such are some of the facts surrounding the " terrible dioramas " described by Hervé Guibert , and a few of the related passages that spring to mind from the ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR | 13 |
WAITING FOR GODOT | 37 |
Copyright | |
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