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This book brings together previously unpublished transcripts of oral presentations in which Michel Foucault speaks at length about literature and its links to some of his principal themes: madness, language and criticism, and truth and desire.



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Editors’ Introduction
Note on the Text
Language, Madness, and Desire
Language and Madness
The Silence of the Mad
Mad Language
Literature and Language
Session One: What Is Literature?
Session Two: What Is the Language of Literature?
Lectures on Sade
Session One: Why Did Sade Write?
Session Two: Theoretical Discourses and Erotic Scenes
Editors’ Notes

Language Madness and Desire On Literature

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      Publisher University of Minnesota Press
      Published 26 May 2015
      ISBN-13 9780816693238
      978-0816693238
      ISBN-10 0816693234
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      Philosophy Books by Michel Foucault

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This book brings together previously unpublished transcripts of oral presentations in which Michel Foucault speaks at length about literature and its links to some of his principal themes: madness, language and criticism, and truth and desire.



      Table of Contents

      Contents

      Editors’ Introduction
      Note on the Text
      Language, Madness, and Desire
      Language and Madness
      The Silence of the Mad
      Mad Language
      Literature and Language
      Session One: What Is Literature?
      Session Two: What Is the Language of Literature?
      Lectures on Sade
      Session One: Why Did Sade Write?
      Session Two: Theoretical Discourses and Erotic Scenes
      Editors’ Notes

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