Re: [Foucault-L] Critique of a short passage by Dreyfus & Rabinow regarding the Order of Things

They didn't publish the bibliography and he probably kept it from
publication but its highly probably he may have read it or a text very much
like it.

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:03 AM, michael bibby <shmickeyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>
> Let me also suggest to your view a primary text which will furnish anyone
> interested in fleshing out the Order of Things in its Historical Being, and
> that is Thomas Brown's Religio Medici.
>
> I have often complained to myself on many occasions at the lack of the
> engagement, by the participants in this discussion group, in primary
> material, the sort of material which furnished Foucaults Ouvour with its
> substance, and promised to myself to supply some of that lack when the
> opportunity next presented itself. Well, I have often had the experience,
> while reading the Order of Things, that Thomas Brown's Religio Medici is one
> of those texts that lays silently behind it, stands in the background as it
> were, and informs it obliquely. In other words, I was surprised not to find
> any reference to Religio Medici in the Order of Things (despite the fact
> that my copy of Order of Things is missing the Index), when it seemed to
> epitomise much of what it talks about (i.e., deploys in its positivities),
> and the fact that it was such a well known little book (throughout the
> period that Foucaults book staked out as its field of interest) which found
> as many
> readers in Catholic countries as it did in Protestant ones.
>
> Regarded 'astride a low wall'
>
>
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