What? Well, given their dismissal of the whole of the humanities, and the ridicule with which they spoke about Foucault, I doubt they're going to be reading The History of Sexuality or The Archaeology of Knowledge anytime soon. Or am I being too defensive, and mis-judging the post? Some 'continental philosophers' are difficult to read. Derrida is a spectacularly bad writer, for instance. Foucault is not one of…
If there was no change, would there be history? Here is Foucault from Archaeology of Knowledge: The notion of discontinuity is a paradoxical one: because it is both an instrument and an object of research; because it divides up the fields of which it is the effect; because it enables the historian…
啥？鉴于他们对整个人文学科的不屑一顾，以及谈及福柯时那种嘲讽的态度，我怀疑他们近期根本不可能去读《性史》或者《知识考古学》。还是说我太敏感、误判了这个帖子？某些“欧陆哲学家”确实晦涩难懂。比如德里达写得简直烂得惊人。但福柯绝不是那一类……
What? Well, given their dismissal of the whole of the humanities, and the ridicule with which they spoke about Foucault, I doubt they're going to be reading The History of Sexuality or The Archaeology of Knowledge anytime soon. Or am I being too defensive, and mis-judging the post? Some 'continental philosophers' are difficult to read. Derrida is a spectacularly bad writer, for instance. Foucault is not one of…
如果没有变化，还会有历史吗？以下是福柯在《知识考古学》中的论述：断裂（discontinuity）的概念本身是个悖论：因为它既是研究的工具，又是研究的对象；因为它划分了自身作为其结果的领域；因为它让历史学家得以……
If there was no change, would there be history? Here is Foucault from Archaeology of Knowledge: The notion of discontinuity is a paradoxical one: because it is both an instrument and an object of research; because it divides up the fields of which it is the effect; because it enables the historian…