Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Michel Foucault
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Language or languages, Philosophy or philosophers, Sex or sexuality, Authors or writers, Science or scientists, Historians, Terminal illness or terminally ill, Aesthetics
With this second large volume in the New Press Foucault series under Paul Rabinow’s general editorship, the selection of Michel Foucault’s occasional pieces grows more imposing, if less so than Gallimard’s four-volume definitive French collection Dits et écrits, edited by Daniel Defert and François Ewald. James D. Faubion, an anthropology professor at Rice University, is editor of this volume, which groups the French author’s essays and interviews into two main sections: “Aesthetics” and “Method and Epistemology.” Some of Foucault’s most celebrated and...
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