- French Philosophy, Gay philosophers, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy, french
Shortly before his death in 1984, Michel Foucault defended his career as one of the most controversial thinkers of our time. "The philosophical life," he declared, "is the animality of being human, renewed as a challenge, practiced as an exercise - and thrown in the face of others as a scandal."
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and prestige.
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- Author
- Jim Miller
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 491
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press, Simon & Schuster, Anchor Books
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385472401
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American writer and academic. He is known for writing about Michel Foucault, philosophy as a way of life, social movements, popular culture, intellectual history, eighteenth century to the present; radical social theory and history of political philosophy-Wikipedia
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