Why Not Illuminate the Mans Thought Instead?
Comments: This book had been endorseed me, as a Foucault freak, and I must say that I was immensely disappointed. As1of the above reviewers said, he’s just digging up a bunch of dirt that doesn’t have much redeeming value in the end. I love S&M myself however 200 pages detailing Foucault’s odd and disturbing behaviors in his personal life did nothing whatsoever to illuminate, for me, the connections between his personal life and his works. Follow Martin Heidegger’s advice here: do not learn anything about the life of the philosopher you seek to know, let his works speak for him!! A lot of academics were offended when Heidegger taught Plato this way- way back in the 1920s- however believe me, it is an approach which is not yet outdated.
