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Books The Difference
Posted by Charles Mudede on Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:59 PM
This is the forgotten Foucault:
This is the remembered Foucault:
I much prefer the forgotten Foucault, the warmer Foucault. The remembered Foucault is so cold and distant.
His best Books? In this order: 1) Discipline and Punish; 2) The History of Sexuality Volume One; 3) The Order of Things. 4) his lectures in The Birth of Biopolitics 1978-1979; 5) Madness and Civilization.
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Charles,
I remember reading Michel Foucault many, many years ago. I think it was "Dicipline & Punish". I recall him being a pop intellectual in the early 80s. I know he passed away many years ago.
I remember reading Michel Foucault many, many years ago. I think it was "Dicipline & Punish". I recall him being a pop intellectual in the early 80s. I know he passed away many years ago.
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Charles, the top two texts you listed, 'Discipline and Punish' and the 'The History of Sexuality Volume One', were almost certainly written during the bald years - so the pictures you present don't really support your argument. Let's face it, what you are really saying is that the Foucault with hair is more attractive than the bald Foucault. Non?
I totally agree with the list, though. Just not your chosen visual representation...
I totally agree with the list, though. Just not your chosen visual representation...
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Young Foucault is certainly cuter, but old, bald, severe Foucault looks much more like his theories. The weight of history seems to have pulled his hair right out.
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I can't stop with Discipline & Punish. His discussion of how power structures our society is important in so many ways to so many fields of study. As a student of political theory, this, along with the competing yet complimentary texts of Hannah Arendt, guide most everything I read and write.
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Good Morning Charles,
Here's an interesting piece referencing Michel Foucualt by Theodore Darymple:
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage…
The "abolition of prisons"? Bad idea.
Here's an interesting piece referencing Michel Foucualt by Theodore Darymple:
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage…
The "abolition of prisons"? Bad idea.
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