Re: The Lives of Infamous Men

The work sounds very attractive. I would like to read it. Could you give a more
precise reference, please?

Wayne
Ian Robert Douglas wrote:

> I've been re-reading this beautiful text; as Deleuze remarked, it is indeed
> a masterpiece. I was wondering, for I was never able to find out myself,
> if anyone on the list knows why, in the end, the projected volume for which
> this essay was an introduction, never appeared? The essay was written in
> 1977, and given the depth of wonder and passion with which Foucault writes,
> one wouldn't expect that he simply got bored of it. I'm just curious.
> Though a volume on a similar theme appeared in 1982 (_Le Desordre des
> familles_), _La Vie des homme infames_ was supposedly a separate project.
>
> best wishes/sincerely,
>
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> "Fire includes heat and light: it is the ardour that
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> flashes from the intellect, which performs
> miracles in this world." - Napoleon




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