[ecrea] Speech Begins after Death - Michel Foucault

http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/speech-begins-after-death

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*Speech Begins after Death***

/Michel Foucault/

/Edited by Philippe Artières/

/Translated by Robert Bononno/

/Contributions by Claude Bonnefoy///

In 1968, Michel Foucault agreed to a series of interviews with critic 
Claude Bonnefoy, which were to be published in book form. Bonnefoy 
wanted a dialogue with Foucault about his relationship to writing rather 
than about the content of his books. The project was abandoned, but a 
transcript of the initial interview survived and is now being published 
for the first time in English. In this brief and lively exchange, 
Foucault reflects on how he approached the written word throughout his 
life, from his school days to his discovery of the pleasure of writing.

Wide ranging, characteristically insightful, and unexpectedly 
autobiographical, the discussion is revelatory of Foucault’s 
intellectual development, his aims as a writer, his clinical methodology 
“let’s say I‘m a diagnostician”, and his interest in other authors, 
including Raymond Roussel and Antonin Artaud. Foucault discloses, in 
ways he never had previously, details about his home life, his family 
history, and the profound sense of obligation he feels to the act of 
writing. In his Introduction, Philippe Artières investigates Foucault’s 
engagement in various forms of oral discourse—lectures, speeches, 
debates, press conferences, and interviews—and their place in his work.

/Speech Begins after Death/shows Foucault adopting a new language, an 
innovative autobiographical communication that is neither conversation 
nor monologue, and is one of his most personal statements about his life 
and writing.

*Michel Foucault*(1926–1984) was a French historian and philosopher 
associated with the structuralist and poststructuralist movements. He is 
often considered the most influential social theorist of the second half 
of the twentieth century, not only in philosophy but in a wide range of 
disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Among his most 
notable books are /Madness and Civilization/, /Discipline and Punish/, 
and /The History of Sexuality/.

University of Minnesota Press | July 2016| 96pp | 9780816683222 | PB | 
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