[Foucault-L] Speaking for Others


Hi All,
I would say that the best example of this is embodied in _I, Pierre Riviere...._ a dossier which was complied by Foucault and some his students from a two-year long seminar at the College de France. This work begins with a series of historical documents, mainly official documents by the authorities, dealing with the Riviere case. James Miller, in his biography _The Passion of Michel Foucault_ quotes Foucault as arguing that this allowed "the power of derangement proper to a discourse like that of Riviere" to speak for itself' [see page 228]. Mark Kelly will be interested to hear that Miller goes on to establish a close connection between this type of methodological approach and that employed by the GIP
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bradley nitins



"A table of values is set up over each people. Behold, it is the table of its triumphs! Behold, it is the voice of its will to power"
Nietzsche "Thus Spake Zarathustra"

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