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   Source:  Library Journal, Feb 1, 1998 v123 n2 p88(1).
                                                                              
    Title:  Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology._(book reviews)
   Author:  Francisca Goldsmith
                                                                              
 Subjects:  Books - Reviews
   People:  Foucault, Michel
Rev Grade:  B
                                                                              
  Magazine Collection:  92H1551
Electronic Collection:  A20302335
                   RN:  A20302335
                                                                              

Full Text COPYRIGHT 1998 Reed Publishing USA

Foucault, Michel. New Pr., dist. by Norton. (Essential Works of Foucault,
1954-1984). Mar. 1998. c.528p. ed. by James D. Faubion. tr. by Robert Hurley &
others. illus. index. ISBN 1-56584-329-0. $27.50. PHIL

The second of three volumes (following Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, LJ
3/15/97) to be excerpted from the Gallimard collection of Foucault's oeuvre,
this work provides American readers with diverse lectures, literary and film
reviews, and interviews concerning language, literature, authorship,
imagination, psychology, order, and history. At midpoint in the volume, the
lecture "What is an author?" fairly describes the project of this series:
"Writing unfolds like a game that invariably goes beyond its own rules and
transgresses its limits." Each of these pieces is thoroughly self-contained
but significant to a greater understanding of both its subject and its author.
Wittily, one piece included here is Foucault's pseudonymously authored
biographical dictionary entry on himself. For all scholars and many lay
readers familiar with Foucault.
                                                                              
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