The Passion of Michel FoucaultThe first detailed account of Foucault's lifelong obsession with death, suicide, drugs, and sadomasochistic eroticism, James Miller's impressively documented study is a provocative exploration of the life and work of one of the most influential, original, and controversial figures in 20th-century intellectual history. |
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Page 93
... means abandoning the methods of conventional research - and also his own previous hopes for a Marxist science of " man . " " Science is no longer a means of access to the enigma of the world . " But the investigator of " negative ...
... means abandoning the methods of conventional research - and also his own previous hopes for a Marxist science of " man . " " Science is no longer a means of access to the enigma of the world . " But the investigator of " negative ...
Page 196
... means ? " 118 Perhaps the most important of these " different means " was his increas- ingly unbuttoned approach to writing : after 1968 , Deleuze's style grew ever more delirious , reaching a new pitch of incandescent " irrealism " in ...
... means ? " 118 Perhaps the most important of these " different means " was his increas- ingly unbuttoned approach to writing : after 1968 , Deleuze's style grew ever more delirious , reaching a new pitch of incandescent " irrealism " in ...
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... means from every subjugating relationship ? What force do they have in themselves ? " " For the last few years , Foucault had approached such questions by exploring what he here called " Nietzsche's hypothesis ” —namely , that " power ...
... means from every subjugating relationship ? What force do they have in themselves ? " " For the last few years , Foucault had approached such questions by exploring what he here called " Nietzsche's hypothesis ” —namely , that " power ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR | 13 |
THE HEART LAID BARE | 66 |
Copyright | |
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