This Is Not a Pipe: 25th Anniversary Edition

by Michel Foucault

2021-01-20 03:02:55

What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? René Magritte''s famous canvas provides the starting point for a delightful homage by French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault. Much better known fo... Read more
What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? René Magritte''s famous canvas provides the starting point for a delightful homage by French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault. Much better known for his incisive and mordant explorations of power and social exclusion, Foucault here assumes a more playful stance. By exploring the nuances and ambiguities of Magritte''s visual critique of language, he finds the painter less removed than previously thought from the pioneers of modern abstraction.
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ISBN9780520236943
Paul-Michel Doria Foucault (Oct 1926 – 25 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relation...

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