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)Foucault--- The most treasured....and I have a funny story about him----Foucault, Michel. The Archaeology of Knowledge and the discourse on language----Foucault, Michel (1978)(1976-French version) (translator Robert Hurley) The History of Sexuality----Foucault, Michel ... ----Foucault, Michel

Aristotle , starting to get into Confucius, Alisdair MacIntyre, Foucault , Chomsky, George Lakoff, Gore Vidal, Helen DeWitt, William Gibson, ... I am reading Lakoff, Foucault, MacIntyre, Aristotle, Kant, and Confucius.

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The Dificult Philosophy test Test

The Dificult Philosophy test Test

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Hi. this is a pretty straightforward test of how well you know some random but important facts about philosophy, philosophers, and stuff. it is the ... ...

The Improved Bullshit Detector Test

The Improved Bullshit Detector Test

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Everybody is basically bullshit. "Except me," you are saying to yourself. This is also bullshit. You are no exception. Have some pop sociology: As ... ...

The Literary Theory Test

The Literary Theory Test

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Welcome to my Lit Crit test. This test is for all the literature majors out there (English and foreign language) who had to sit through endless hours... ...

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The my philosophy Test

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I am a philo grad student, and this test measures your knowledge of whatever I can think of (all to do with philosophy of course) ...

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The Philosophers' Perverse Lives (aka. Fetishes) Test

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Welcome to the one and only quiz that will test your knowledge of the unusual, colorful, and at times perverse, lives of the "great" philosophers of t... ...

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Moving beyond 101-y stuff

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Or maybe I'm just tired because I've been arguing Foucault with someone who is determined to critique him without understanding him in the first place, and having another argument which is not unrelated to Foucault, where I'm being told that I'm missing the point, when I just disagree.

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Gay folks... help me out here.

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Michel Foucault chronicled the history of sexual norms by concentrating on the fluid notion of "homosexuality. ... As Foucault points out, at the time of Plato,People did not have the notion of two distinct appetites allotted to different individuals or at odds

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Moving beyond 101-y stuff

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I thought your Foucault explanations were helpful, although I didn't get involved in the thread, harpy! Foucault makes my brain cramp up sometimes.

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What's the least painful way to commit suicide?

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Foucault was a proponent of ... Foucault first attempted suicide in 1948. His death in 1984, from a neurological infection, is believed to be AIDS related. Foucault often frequented bathhouses in the San Francisco area during the early 1980s. It has been suggested Foucault knew about the risks of

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Socialism

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That's partially why Foucault lost his socialist fire and drifted towards nihilism towards the end of his life. ... As I remember it Foucault -- like Kenneth Arrow in economics -- argued that there are always institutional outliers, always dissidents, always those

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physics joke and state that Foucault should just stick to his damn pendulum and precess the way you should about my love pole. Oh snap, I went there with my lower-class ways. And to explain to your higher-class mentality, I am purposefully mixing up Leon Foucault with Michel Foucault so that I can

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^ Goddamn, you're a regular Michel Foucault. ... certainly someone else has read Foucault*Yes, yes, I know, the tendency of medicine, psychiatry, and even society more generally to render EVERYONE abnormal in some respects is something Foucault was pointing out, not something

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  I think Foucault is orgasmically good at not just dissecting institutions, but also usefully critiquing them in a way I feel Chomsky isn't. ... Read, read, read, read Chomsky, read Foucault, if you don't like what they have to say, at least you'll know their arguments in depth.

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