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Jan D
is on page 100 of 416
Learned about "Logique de Port-Royal" (not from Foucault, but from Wikipedia). It has nothing to do with pirates, but with a monastery near Paris. Also: Signs! Reference! Epistémè!
As well as… "Logique de Port-Royal" having a Grammar-focused predecessor, to which Chomsky refers in Cartesian Grammar… (OK, looking up stuff clearly taught me something, whereas the book itself… we'll see)
— Mar 21, 2020 01:53PM
As well as… "Logique de Port-Royal" having a Grammar-focused predecessor, to which Chomsky refers in Cartesian Grammar… (OK, looking up stuff clearly taught me something, whereas the book itself… we'll see)
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Jan D
is on page 320 of 416
In the (I guess) final part, the text is a bit easier to read and themes from all over the book come together, again.
— Apr 11, 2020 01:28PM
Jan D
is on page 300 of 416
It seems to help to note down where which concept was defined for the "classic" period, cause now come some references back to it. Prose still full of "somehow" constructs that somehow make it hard to understand.
— Apr 10, 2020 08:17AM
Jan D
is on page 280 of 416
Second part starts slowly. It gets a bit easier to read again (good) but refers back a lot to the not always easy to grasp entanglements of the episteme from the first part (this is good cause it helps to understand the 1st part better and bad since this brings up not understood things which I hoped to ignore)
— Apr 08, 2020 09:48AM
Jan D
is on page 210 of 416
It makes more sense if one takes a "Key to…" book along.
Some stuff is great but I always wonder if I interpret this into the vague and metaphorical language or if that is something I can say that Foucault meant. At least I think I got what he meant with the importance of "is" as a verb, but then, again, I'm unsure.
— Apr 02, 2020 04:26AM
Some stuff is great but I always wonder if I interpret this into the vague and metaphorical language or if that is something I can say that Foucault meant. At least I think I got what he meant with the importance of "is" as a verb, but then, again, I'm unsure.
Jan D
is on page 180 of 416
I do not get what makes the verb "be" so special for Foucault. It mainly makes me think of stilted language which avoids verbs, except for what one can't get away without. Also do not get his take on Sign Languages. Or does he actually refer to something like ASL here? Anyway.
The biology part made more sense to me.
— Mar 30, 2020 11:55AM
The biology part made more sense to me.
Jan D
is on page 130 of 416
But at least it is none of the "lets write like Heidegger and Witgenstein at the same moment"-works.
— Mar 26, 2020 12:16PM
Jan D
is on page 130 of 416
OK, this is tough stuff, interesting, but all over the place. Also I am reading the surkamp edition, which needs way more empty pages to make annotations on.
— Mar 26, 2020 12:15PM
Jan D
is on page 120 of 416
It is exiting and covers topics that interest me a lot. However, the writing style… Discipline and Punish was more clear. Also more gore.
Also, the other off-the-mill Foucault-problem applies: some things cited, some not; how is he sure about some things, not about others.
— Mar 23, 2020 02:39PM
Also, the other off-the-mill Foucault-problem applies: some things cited, some not; how is he sure about some things, not about others.
Jan D
is on page 80 of 416
A bit harder to read than discipline and punish; it also does start less gory. But almost anything does, luckily. Wonder if it goes well with Rorty (I guess so)
— Mar 21, 2020 02:58AM
