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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... limits thus represents more than a dramatic and sometimes disturbing aspect of one philosopher's quest for truth : it also suggests a new way of looking at his major texts and assessing their significance ; and of reexamining how a ...
... limits thus represents more than a dramatic and sometimes disturbing aspect of one philosopher's quest for truth : it also suggests a new way of looking at his major texts and assessing their significance ; and of reexamining how a ...
Page 239
... limit , without structure and order , " made urgent , paradoxically , precisely a reaffirmation , somehow , of ... limits be made effective ? What kind of structure - and what kind of order - could be affirmed ? For a Nietz- schean ...
... limit , without structure and order , " made urgent , paradoxically , precisely a reaffirmation , somehow , of ... limits be made effective ? What kind of structure - and what kind of order - could be affirmed ? For a Nietz- schean ...
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... limit . " " If the Kantian question was that of know- ing what limits knowledge has to renounce breaching , " Foucault remarks , summing up his own ethos , " then it seems to me that the critical question today has to be turned back ...
... limit . " " If the Kantian question was that of know- ing what limits knowledge has to renounce breaching , " Foucault remarks , summing up his own ethos , " then it seems to me that the critical question today has to be turned back ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR | 13 |
WAITING FOR GODOT | 37 |
Copyright | |
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