Hello Frank. Unfortunately I cannot provide a
reference for the particulars of which you speak,
but I can point you in the direction of an edited text
which might speak to your interests called 'Rewritting
the history of madness'. I recall reading somewhere,
maybe there, that when Foucault submitted his thesis
for review by his examiners he said, after slamming it
down on the desk in front of them, 'Im not changing a
word'...
--- Frank Ejby Poulsen <frank.ejby.poulsen@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a question regarding Foucault's biography to
> which I did not find any
> answer in the mail list's archive. I thought I read
> somewhere in a biography
> on Foucault that "Madness and Civilisation", his PhD
> dissertation, was first
> presented to the University of Stockholm (or another
> Swedish university)
> during his stay in Sweden because Foucault at that
> time was very concerned
> with breaking bridges with France, and that it was
> rejected for not being
> scientific enough in its method. I cannot remember
> the source of the reading
> unfortunately. Recently I discussed this point with
> a professor in
> philosophy at the University of Vienna, specialised
> in French contemporary
> philosophy, who discarded this point of biography.
> As I do not remember the
> exact source (and as I am but a student facing
> an"expert", and "following
> scientists" and "scientific authority" :-))
> uncertainty grew in my mind. Can
> anyone confirm or infirm this assertion with some
> references? It seems I am
> simply unable to put my hand on the volume and the
> page where I thought I
> read that. Or perhaps I simply misunderstood.
> Thank you so much in advance,
> Frank.
>
> --
> Frank Ejby Poulsen (BLM, MPhil, MPA)
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> A-1014 Wien
> Austria
> Tel: (+43 1) 501 52 615
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reference for the particulars of which you speak,
but I can point you in the direction of an edited text
which might speak to your interests called 'Rewritting
the history of madness'. I recall reading somewhere,
maybe there, that when Foucault submitted his thesis
for review by his examiners he said, after slamming it
down on the desk in front of them, 'Im not changing a
word'...
--- Frank Ejby Poulsen <frank.ejby.poulsen@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a question regarding Foucault's biography to
> which I did not find any
> answer in the mail list's archive. I thought I read
> somewhere in a biography
> on Foucault that "Madness and Civilisation", his PhD
> dissertation, was first
> presented to the University of Stockholm (or another
> Swedish university)
> during his stay in Sweden because Foucault at that
> time was very concerned
> with breaking bridges with France, and that it was
> rejected for not being
> scientific enough in its method. I cannot remember
> the source of the reading
> unfortunately. Recently I discussed this point with
> a professor in
> philosophy at the University of Vienna, specialised
> in French contemporary
> philosophy, who discarded this point of biography.
> As I do not remember the
> exact source (and as I am but a student facing
> an"expert", and "following
> scientists" and "scientific authority" :-))
> uncertainty grew in my mind. Can
> anyone confirm or infirm this assertion with some
> references? It seems I am
> simply unable to put my hand on the volume and the
> page where I thought I
> read that. Or perhaps I simply misunderstood.
> Thank you so much in advance,
> Frank.
>
> --
> Frank Ejby Poulsen (BLM, MPhil, MPA)
> Schelleingasse 36 / 615
> A-1014 Wien
> Austria
> Tel: (+43 1) 501 52 615
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