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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... pleasure , which people had no idea about previously . " 41 " I think that the kind of pleasure I would consider as the real pleasure would be so deep , so intense , so overwhelming that I couldn't survive it , ” Foucault explained in ...
... pleasure , which people had no idea about previously . " 41 " I think that the kind of pleasure I would consider as the real pleasure would be so deep , so intense , so overwhelming that I couldn't survive it , ” Foucault explained in ...
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... Pleasure and The Care of the Self , Foucault investigated how classical thinkers from Socrates to Seneca had elaborated their own , more personal regimens of " truth , " trying to bring a measure of reason and just proportion to their ...
... Pleasure and The Care of the Self , Foucault investigated how classical thinkers from Socrates to Seneca had elaborated their own , more personal regimens of " truth , " trying to bring a measure of reason and just proportion to their ...
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... pleasure . " Through S / M , people “ are inventing new possibilities of pleasure with strange parts of their body - through the eroticization of the body . I think it's a kind of creation , a creative enterprise , which has as one of ...
... pleasure . " Through S / M , people “ are inventing new possibilities of pleasure with strange parts of their body - through the eroticization of the body . I think it's a kind of creation , a creative enterprise , which has as one of ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR | 13 |
WAITING FOR GODOT | 37 |
Copyright | |
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