The Passion of Michel FoucaultA startling look at one of this century's most influential philosophers, the book 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 152
... remarked , The Order of Things is a " malicious gift . " For Foucault's approach once again has the curious effect of causing the object under investigation to crumble before our eyes : just as " madness " was stripped of its self ...
... remarked , The Order of Things is a " malicious gift . " For Foucault's approach once again has the curious effect of causing the object under investigation to crumble before our eyes : just as " madness " was stripped of its self ...
Page 172
... remarked in a 1978 interview , his days in the Communist Party and his subsequent travels in Soviet Eastern Europe had produced " a certain bitterness , a certain very contemplative skepticism , I do not hide it . " After his return to ...
... remarked in a 1978 interview , his days in the Communist Party and his subsequent travels in Soviet Eastern Europe had produced " a certain bitterness , a certain very contemplative skepticism , I do not hide it . " After his return to ...
Page 305
... remarked that “ the inscrutability of the idea of freedom precludes all positive presentation . " Still , he agrees with his in- terlocutor that it is just this occult " essence " that " I have been trying to make appear , " as a " kind ...
... remarked that “ the inscrutability of the idea of freedom precludes all positive presentation . " Still , he agrees with his in- terlocutor that it is just this occult " essence " that " I have been trying to make appear , " as a " kind ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR | 13 |
WAITING FOR GODOT | 37 |
Copyright | |
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