Michel Foucault
Volume I: An Introduction
Translated by: Robert Hurley
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Michel Foucault (1977) in: Language Counter-Memory. Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews. This essay first appeared in : Hommage à Jean Hyppolite (Paris, PUF 1971)… Thomas S. Kane Two broad assumptions underlie this book: (1) that writing is a rational activity, and (2) that it is a valuable activity. To say that writing is rational means nothing more than that it is an exercise of mind requiring the mastery of techniques anyone can learn. Obviously, there are limits: one cannot learn [...] Roman par: Honoré de Balzac Il existe à Douai dans la rue de Paris une maison dont la physionomie, les dispositions intérieures et les détails ont, plus que ceux d’aucun autre logis, gardé le caractère des vieilles construction flamandes, si naïvement appropriées aux moeurs patriarcales de ce bon pays; mais avant de la décrire, peut-être faut-il [...] Essai d’une transmutation de toutes les valeurs (Études et Fragments) Friedrich Nietzsche Traduit par Henri Albert Note du traducteur: La présente traduction a été faite sur l’édition originale allemande, quinzième volume des OEuvres complètes de Frédéric Nietzsche, publié en novembre 1901, chez C. G. Naumann à Leipzig, par les soins du ” Nietzsche-Archiv “. On trouvera dans la préface [...] Jacques Derrida, Writing and Difference, Perhaps something has occurred in the history of the concept of structure that could be called an “event,” if this loaded word did not entail a meaning which it is precisely the function of structural-or structuralist-thought to reduce or to suspect. But let [...] Texts by Strauss Tocqueville, living two generations after Burke, accepted modern democracy on a Burkian basis, without accepting all the [?] of natural religion. That is the starting point of Tocqueville. Tocqueville was here for a very short time, making some inquiries for the French Government. The result of his observations was these remarkable two volumes [...] Allan Bloom Professor Bloom has his own way of doing things. Writing about the higher education in America, he does not observe the forms, manners and ceremonies of what is called (usually by itself) the community of scholars. Yet his credentials are irreproachable. He is the author of an excellent book on Shakespeare’s politics, and has [...] Albert Camus Part One MOTHER died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure. The telegram from the Home says: YOUR MOTHER PASSED AWAY. FUNERAL TOMORROW. DEEP SYMPATHY. Which leaves the matter doubtful; it could have been yesterday. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Save for his raucous, rhapsodical autobiography, “Ecce Homo,” “The Antichrist” is the last thing that Nietzsche ever wrote, and so it may be accepted as a statement of some of his most salient ideas in their finalform. Notes for it had been accumulating for years and it was to have constituted the first [...] |
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