This post, along with the earlier discussion on agency, has me thinking
about what Foucault thought about "The Outsider" by Alber Camus. I know
that Foucault wrote on Maurice Blanchot:The Thought from Outside but I'm
not aware of anything Foucault may have written on "The Outsider".
Any thoughts?
Perhaps the following quote from Camus regarding the chapter about
Meursault and the chaplain, may attract some further discussion about
agency and the construction of self (or even the role of the confession):
"In this chapter as in the rest of the book he restricts himself to
*replying to questions*. Previously, the questions were those which the
world asks us every day - now, they are those that the chaplain asks
him. Thus I define my character negatively."
Albert Camus, in Thody's selected essays and notebooks, p.209
David.
On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Chris Mitchell wrote:
>
> I realise that this isn't entirely appropriate to the list, but I thought
> many of the Foucault list's subscribers would be interested in the following:
>
> An interview with Catherine Camus, the daughter of the French Nobel-prize
> winning novelist and philosopher Albert Camus, in now available on the Web.
> The interview concerns the publication of Camus' unfinished manuscript, The
> First Man, which was published in France in 1994 and in English last year.
> The interview especially focusses on Camus as a political and moral philosopher.
>
> The interview is part of SPIKE cyberzine, which has recently been set up.
> Forthcoming in SPIKE is an appreciation of E.M.Cioran, the Romanian-born
> philosopher, who died on the 20th June 1995.
>
> SPIKE is at - http://www.pavilion.co.uk/david-pearce/spike.htm
>
> I hope this is of interest to some of you and apoligies if this seems like
> taking a liberty with the list.
>
> Regards
> Chris
> email: chrismi@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
about what Foucault thought about "The Outsider" by Alber Camus. I know
that Foucault wrote on Maurice Blanchot:The Thought from Outside but I'm
not aware of anything Foucault may have written on "The Outsider".
Any thoughts?
Perhaps the following quote from Camus regarding the chapter about
Meursault and the chaplain, may attract some further discussion about
agency and the construction of self (or even the role of the confession):
"In this chapter as in the rest of the book he restricts himself to
*replying to questions*. Previously, the questions were those which the
world asks us every day - now, they are those that the chaplain asks
him. Thus I define my character negatively."
Albert Camus, in Thody's selected essays and notebooks, p.209
David.
On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Chris Mitchell wrote:
>
> I realise that this isn't entirely appropriate to the list, but I thought
> many of the Foucault list's subscribers would be interested in the following:
>
> An interview with Catherine Camus, the daughter of the French Nobel-prize
> winning novelist and philosopher Albert Camus, in now available on the Web.
> The interview concerns the publication of Camus' unfinished manuscript, The
> First Man, which was published in France in 1994 and in English last year.
> The interview especially focusses on Camus as a political and moral philosopher.
>
> The interview is part of SPIKE cyberzine, which has recently been set up.
> Forthcoming in SPIKE is an appreciation of E.M.Cioran, the Romanian-born
> philosopher, who died on the 20th June 1995.
>
> SPIKE is at - http://www.pavilion.co.uk/david-pearce/spike.htm
>
> I hope this is of interest to some of you and apoligies if this seems like
> taking a liberty with the list.
>
> Regards
> Chris
> email: chrismi@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>