Critical Essay by George Steiner
[Foucault's] name carried a deepening, though esoteric, resonance throughout the early sixties. But it was with "Les Mots et les Choses," publish...
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Critical Essay by Richard Howard
In 1965 I translated Foucault's earlier book Madness & Civilization, a work which presented me, my editor, and the reviewers … a great many problems...
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Critical Essay by Peter Caws
Michel Foucault is one of a handful of French thinkers who have, in the last 10 years, given an entirely new direction to theoretical work in the so-called "human ...
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Iraq's embattled prime minister compared the fight for order in Iraq to the U.S. Civil War almost 150 years ago, saying the current struggle "is perhaps even more complicated."Nouri Al-Maliki's com...
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A new squad of morality police has begun detaining Palestinians who eat or drink in public during Ramadan in the West Bank, where the Islamic month of daytime fasting was always widely observed but...
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ARIESMarch 21-April 19Planetary influences are pushing you towards a large scale review of your position in life and your future goals. This is especially true of your emotional life as you have so...
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Can a work of art be independent of the time and culture in which it was created? Can it thrive on the characteristics inherent in its shaping—on aesthetic merit alone?
In today’s theo...
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Can a work of art be independent of the time and culture in which it was created? Can it thrive on the characteristics inherent in its shaping—on aesthetic merit alone?
In today’s the...
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Critical Essay by George Steiner
Iraqi PM sees parallels to US Civil War
