Re: Transgression--->Laughter

On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Amie Barrodale wrote:
> Can anyone tell me of a writing in which Foucault addresses laughter?
> That's all,
> Amie

somewhere f. talks about his own laughter:
it is i believe in the preface to 'the order of things' where foucault
says that that book grew out of a laughter that came to him when he read
borges' description of a fictitious chinese encyclopedia. (it contains a
very funny classification of animals.)




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