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As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work
spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a
complex and profound relationship with literature. And yet this
critical aspect of his thought, because it was largely expressed in
speeches and interviews, remains virtually unknown to even his most
loyal readers. This book brings together previously unpublished
transcripts of oral presentations in which Foucault speaks at
length about literature and its links to some of his principal
themes: madness, language and criticism, and truth and desire. The
associations between madness and language-and madness and
silence-preoccupy Foucault in two 1963 radio broadcasts, presented
here, in which he ranges among literary examples from Cervantes and
Shakespeare to Diderot, before taking up questions about Artaud's
literary correspondence, lettres de cachet, and the materiality of
language. In his lectures on the relations among language, the
literary work, and literature, he discusses Joyce, Proust,
Chateaubriand, Racine, and Corneille, as well as the linguist Roman
Jakobson. What we know as literature, Foucault contends, begins
with the Marquis de Sade, to whose writing-particularly La Nouvelle
Justine and Juliette-he devotes a full two-part lecture series
focusing on notions of literary self-consciousness. Following his
meditations on history in the recently published Speech Begins
after Death, this current volume makes clear the importance of
literature to Foucault's thought and intellectual development.
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Madness, Language, Literature (Hardcover)
Michel Foucault; Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini, Judith Revel; Translated by Robert Bononno
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R927
Discovery Miles 9 270
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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Newly published lectures by Foucault on madness, literature, and
structuralism. Â Perceiving an enigmatic relationship between
madness, language, and literature, French philosopher Michel
Foucault developed ideas during the 1960s that are less explicit in
his later, more well-known writings. Collected here, these
previously unpublished texts reveal a Foucault who undertakes an
analysis of language and experience detached from their historical
constraints. Three issues predominate: the experience of madness
across societies;Â madness and language in Artaud, Roussel,
and Baroque theater; and structuralist literary
criticism. Not only do these texts pursue concepts unique to
this period such as the “extra-linguistic,” but they also
reveal a far more complex relationship between structuralism and
Foucault than has typically been acknowledged.
As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work
spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a
complex and profound relationship with literature. And yet this
critical aspect of his thought, because it was largely expressed in
speeches and interviews, remains virtually unknown to even his most
loyal readers. This book brings together previously unpublished
transcripts of oral presentations in which Foucault speaks at
length about literature and its links to some of his principal
themes: madness, language and criticism, and truth and desire. The
associations between madness and language—and madness and
silence—preoccupy Foucault in two 1963 radio broadcasts,
presented here, in which he ranges among literary examples from
Cervantes and Shakespeare to Diderot, before taking up questions
about Artaud’s literary correspondence, lettres de cachet, and
the materiality of language. In his lectures on the relations among
language, the literary work, and literature, he discusses Joyce,
Proust, Chateaubriand, Racine, and Corneille, as well as the
linguist Roman Jakobson. What we know as literature, Foucault
contends, begins with the Marquis de Sade, to whose
writing—particularly La Nouvelle Justine and Juliette—he
devotes a full two-part lecture series focusing on notions of
literary self-consciousness. Following his meditations on history
in the recently published Speech Begins after Death, this current
volume makes clear the importance of literature to Foucault’s
thought and intellectual development.
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