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From: "Ge'off" <laurapalmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:09:25 +1000
Hello to all
My name's Geoffrey Parkes. I'm studying at the Uni. of Southern QLD,
Australia, and I'm working on my PhD in English literature, looking at
possibilities of a post-Holocaust ethics of the self, using selected
works of Camus, Foucault and Beckett, that might challenge resurgent
fundamentalisms.
I'm wondering how much work has been published on the fourth volume of
THoS, Confessions of the Flesh. As I understand it, it remains archived
(in Paris?) but a number of papers have been written about it, and
certainly in connection with the publication of the lectures.
Perhaps this is a broader question for discussion as well - it could be
seen that Confessions, as it remains largely unseen, stands as an
illusory key that might unlock the other volumes, and yet, from what
I've read, it seems to also want to read back upon the volumes,
particularly the work that underlies Volume One. It adds to the idea of
a complete narrative, perhaps a western preference and a biographical
one - that closure was achieved. Thoughts?
Kind regards
Geoff
--
Reality is something you have to rise above - Liza Minnelli
