The Fictions of Foucault's Scholarship


	The Fictions of Foucault's Scholarship

jklugman

4-4-2007 12:10 PM

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michel foucault, philosophy

jklugman says:

Michel Foucault's The History of Madness has been translated in its entirety into English for the first time. Andrew Scull argues that the shoddy scholarship and history of this famous thinker will be laid bare to English readers.

Via Eric Scott Kaufman

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4-4-2007 2:47 PM

adamc

Interesting. I took a Postmodern Politics class in college and really enjoyed the basics of Foucault's theory.

4-4-2007 3:25 PM

enbar

I always had a gut feeling that Foucault's grasp of history was pretty shaky. Quel poseur.

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