Daniel_Cheung
02-28-2007, 10:46 AM
http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=8904
Reviewed by Colin Gordon, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust
'Work: that which is capable of introducing a significant difference in the field of knowledge, at the cost of certain pains for the author and reader, and with the possible reward of a certain pleasure, namely that of access to another figure of truth'. Michel Foucault's close friend and insightful commentator Paul Veyne recently published, at the age of 75, what may be his magnum opus, L'Empire Greco-Romain. The book is published in a series of which Veyne and Foucault were founding editors, entitled 'Des travaux' (lamely translatable as 'Works'). The motto of the series, cited above, was surely written by Foucault. History of Madness, the book which made Foucault's name and career, written asa doctoral thesis and published in 1961 when he was 34, certainly qualifies as a 'work' in all the designated respects.
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Reviewed by Colin Gordon, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust
'Work: that which is capable of introducing a significant difference in the field of knowledge, at the cost of certain pains for the author and reader, and with the possible reward of a certain pleasure, namely that of access to another figure of truth'. Michel Foucault's close friend and insightful commentator Paul Veyne recently published, at the age of 75, what may be his magnum opus, L'Empire Greco-Romain. The book is published in a series of which Veyne and Foucault were founding editors, entitled 'Des travaux' (lamely translatable as 'Works'). The motto of the series, cited above, was surely written by Foucault. History of Madness, the book which made Foucault's name and career, written asa doctoral thesis and published in 1961 when he was 34, certainly qualifies as a 'work' in all the designated respects.
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