Posted on my site michel-foucault.com Describing notions of ‘the general form of the Greek conception of language’ in the context of Socrates’ discussions of truth and philosophy, Foucault notes: ‘words and phrases in their very reality have an original relationship with truth …. Language which is without embellishment, apparatus, construction or reconstruction, language in the [...]
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Foucault: truth, language and philosophy
Posted in Foucault, philosophy, tagged analytic philosophy, language, parrhesia, Plato, power, representation, Socrates, truth on December 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The social utility of art and scholarship
Posted in Foucault, writing and publishing, tagged disciplinary society, Geoffrey Harpham on December 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Links via Stuart Elden’s blog Geoffrey Galt Harpham notes the following (citation via JJ Cohen at In the Middle) [Research is] an immense undertaking in which countless people performing the most tedious small tasks are able, collectively, to liberate the modern world from the grip of doctrine, authority, and myth. The value of each contribution [...]
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