Language, Madness, and Desire

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Language, Madness, and Desire

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ISBN: 9780816693238
作者: Michel Foucault
譯者: Robert Bononno
出版社: Univ Of Minnesota Press
發行時間: 2015 -5
裝訂: Hardcover
價格: USD 29.95
頁數: 176

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On Literature

Michel Foucault    譯者: Robert Bononno

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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 This book brings together previously unpublished transcripts of oral presentations in which Foucault speaks at length about literature and its links to some of his principal themes: madness, language and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 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.

contents

Contents
Editors’ Introduction
Note on the Text
Language, Madness, and Desire
Language and Madness
The Silence of the Mad
Mad Language
Literature and Language
Session 2: What Is Literature?
Session 2: What Is the Language of Literature?
Lectures on Sade
Session 1: Why Did Sade Write?
Session 2: Theoretical Discourses and Erotic Scenes
Editors’ Notes

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