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The dialogues and internal narrative fall flat for most of the book. It just doesn't ring true and is full of hollow platitudes and philosophical nonsense. Says one general to Converse: "Voltaire said it best in his Discours sur I' homme. Essentially he wrote that man attained his highest...
INCLUDED AS AN APPENDIX is "The Discourses on Language," Foucault's inaugural lecture on assuming his chair at the College de France in 1970. The title is a mistranslation of "L'ordre du discours." Appropriately, the lecture sketches out, in addition to a theory of the way in which societies regulate and suppress discourses, a number of possible projects with which we can expect to see Foucault continue his work. One such project might be an investigation of concepts of sexuality as expressed in linguistic taboos and their changes. Another, at an even more basic level, might investigate how ritual...
France is much in thrall to its own version of the heroic past. Accordingly, Gramont invokes, analyzes and denigrates Jules Michelet, the great French Romantic historian whose writings helped to "create" France's epic past. When Gramont describes French intellectual life, he gives a useful though jaundiced look at...
The Author. M. Andre Maurois was born in Normandy, and until after the War he had no opportunity for writing. He celebrated his literary freedom with Les Silences du Colonel Bramble, which received a stupendous reception for a first novel. Then followed Les Discours du Docteur O'Grady and Ni...
In addition to a number of first editions, among which are included Locke's "Essay on Government," Descartes' "Discours de la Methode," Pasoal's "Pensees," and Kant's "Critique," there are several original manuscripts and volumes annotated by the authors. The notes to one of Fichte's lectures, in his...