Foucault's Life, Death and Love

The Passion of Michel Foucault

☆The interweaving of philosophical thinking and "extreme experience", the mutual interpretation of life and thought, understanding Foucault in the context of European thought, a key reading of 20th-century Western thought.
☆This book is not only a biography of a great thinker, but also a great Nietzschean exploration of "how people become what they are".
☆Professor Gao Yi of Peking University refined the translation and wrote the preface for the recommendation.
Foucault is one of the most brilliant, captivating, and widely read thinkers of our time. His ideas are not merely expressed in words but also in the lifelong "extreme experiences" he engaged in. We are equally impressed and captivated not only by his elegant and fluent prose and impactful ideas, but also by his unique, rich, compelling, and often controversial life story. Author James Miller, with his profound philosophical background and exceptional writing skills, has meticulously studied Foucault's works, compiled and consulted extensive material, and interviewed numerous relevant figures. Based on this foundation, he has written this excellent book, chronicling Foucault's "philosophical life."
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A lonely and eccentric teenager, a lifelong preparation for suicide, a violent lifestyle preference, and the mysterious revelation of the valley and the car accident...
Foucault's life, like his thought, is rich, fascinating, and fraught with controversy: his childhood feelings for a boy in his class; his repeated suicide attempts in college; his initial opposition and critique of Sartre, the philosopher who dominated academia; his silence when Derrida criticized Madness and Civilization; his ambiguous approach to and distance from political movements; his ambivalent attitude toward the Iranian Revolution; his academic alliance with Deleuze and its subsequent dissolution... In Miller's book, these experiences of Foucault are intertwined with his thought—his inheritance of the French tradition of history of science and epistemology, his opposition to modern humanism, his focus on and investigation of irrationality, anomaly, and separation, his revelation of power relations in modern society, his resistance to structuralism, and his fascination with the theme of death—to present Foucault's life and death, his love and hate, his actions and thoughts, his experiences and passions. "The secret to deriving the greatest rewards and pleasures from existence is to live dangerously."
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Mr. Miller paints a picture of a vibrant, fiery, fearless, and radiant mind—admittedly, it may be a bit self-destructive and all too human, but it never falls prey to criticism as banal, banal, anonymous, or naive. —The New York Times Book Review Miller's controversial book is the product of rigorous and complex research... He discusses madness, death, and homosexuality, and especially describes sadomasochism culture in vivid, almost sensual detail. —The New Republic
This book is a bold and imaginative interpretation of Foucault's life, expanding and even subverting the moral and aesthetic traditions bequeathed by three centuries of modernity. - The Boston Globe
The way James Miller discusses topics like sex and philosophy, Nietzsche and AIDS, may shock some readers…but it is through these seemingly disparate elements that he constructs a life of erotic desire. —Edmund White
This astonishing work is a key text for late 20th-century Western culture, as its intellectual brilliance is highly inspiring and its resounding response is commensurate with the subject matter it discusses.

2018-06-01

上海人民出版社

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