More Foucault
The second half of Foucault is proving a bit more ?discomboobling? for me, just when I think I know what he is getting after, he moves into an example that is several pages long, and I am totally lost. I keep hoping for a real concrete example of one of his ideas, but perhaps there are no layman examples for ideas of such complexity.
But, even in the dark I have found some beautifull quotes, that help me get through it.
pg.219 "History as we know, is certainly the most erudite, the most aware, the most conscious, and possibly the most cluttered area of our memory; but it is equally the depths from which all beings emerge into their precarious, glittering existence.
pg278 "Life is the root of all existence, and the non-living, nature in its inert form, is merely spent life; mere being is the non-being of life. For life-and this is why it has a radical value in nineteenth-century thought-is at the same time the nucleus of being and of non-being: there is being only because there is life, and in that fundamental movement that dooms them to death, the scattered beings, stable for an instant, are formed, halt, hold life immobile- and in a sense kill it- but are then in turn destroyed by that enexhaustible force. "
If that isn't poetic, I don't know what is! I think had Foucault just given up on debate and on giving his ideas and theories credit, he would have made a fine poet.