If ever there was a starting point to be found in Foucaults work, "one of those small origins that Nietsche like to discover at the beginning of great things", it is in his cursory treatment of *exomologesis* and *exagoriusis* in 'About the Beginning of the Hermaneutics of the Self'.
An insinutating suggestion.
Regards Claire, Michael Bibby.
--- On Sat, 12/7/08, c.ofarrell@xxxxxxxxxx <c.ofarrell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: c.ofarrell@xxxxxxxxxx <c.ofarrell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Foucault-L] research ideas from F's work
> To: foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Received: Saturday, 12 July, 2008, 11:46 AM
> I am looking for examples of work that has been done using
> as a starting
> point a throw away comment or couple of sentences in
> Foucault's work.
>
> For example, one could imagine a whole study resulting from
> the following:
>
> '... from the moment that people were no longer quite
> sure of having a soul
> or that the body would return to life, more attention to
> mortal remains
> became necessary; these became the only trace of our
> existence in the midst
> of the world and in the midst of words.
> In any case, it was in the nineteenth century that each
> person began to have
> the right to his own little box for his own personal
> decomposition ...
> (trans. mod)
>
> Michel Foucault. (1998) [1984]. 'Different spaces'.
> In J. Faubion (ed.). Tr.
> Robert Hurley and others. *Aesthetics, method and
> epistemology. The
> Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984. Volume Two*
> Harmondsworth,
> Middlesex: Allen Lane, Penguin, p. 181.
>
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> Clare
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