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Dreaming Dissymmetry: Barthes, Foucault, and Sexual Difference: Naomi Schor, Frost Lounge, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington...
...foreward, Said compares the monumental scope of Schwab's project to Foucault's Archaeology of Knowledge. Still, in its overwhelming depth and detail and cloquently subjective vision, it surpasses even Foucault's work, which it anticipated by 19 years...
DIED. Michel Foucault, 57, opaque, paradoxical French philosopher-historian, whose concepts of normality, deviance and the exercise of social and political control profoundly influenced psychiatry and penology in many countries and whose modes of thought and post-Marxist politics strongly affected French intellectuals, especially the "new philosophers"; of cancer; in Paris. He began by examining the concept of insanity, arguing in Madness and Civilization (1961) that society uses such ideas to impose normative standards of behavior. In The Birth of the Clinic (1963), The Order of Things (1966) and his unfinished, multivolume History of Sexuality, he reasoned that "power...
...becomes a poem. Call it Civilized Man. Only he gives names to, let alone catalogues reading, sex, and eating. The difficulty of the task is revealed in the bizarre logic of classification, which is no more advanced than the "certain Chinese encyclopedia" in a passage by Borges, quoted by Foucault, in which it it written that "animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the emperor, (b) embalmed, (c)tame, (d) sucking pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush, (l) et cetera...
...Bernard Cohen. Thomas Professor of the History of Science, plans to re-read Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge and plow through a tome or two of Sartre and Flaubert. But for an undergraduate not necessarily interested in chasing the history of science on every lazy afternoon, he chooses this septet, including three books by colleagues...