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By Leonard Lawlor

The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon is a reference device that offers transparent and incisive definitions and outlines of all of Foucault's significant phrases and affects, together with background, wisdom, language, philosophy, and tool. additionally it is entries on philosophers approximately whom Foucault wrote and who encouraged Foucault's pondering, equivalent to Deleuze, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Canguilhem. The entries are written via students of Foucault from various disciplines resembling philosophy, gender reviews, political technological know-how, and background. jointly, they make clear strategies key to Foucault and to ongoing discussions of his paintings this day.

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Similarly, Foucault argues that in literary criticism, at a very basic level, there is still the attempt to resolve contradictions within an author’s work (EEW2, 215). Finally, the author-function refers to “positions that can be occupied by different classes of individuals” rather than the simple reference to some real individual (EEW2, 216). This can be seen through the examination of the personal pronouns within a mathematical text. As Foucault points out, the author of the preface indicates the writer of the text who “completed a certain task” (EEW2, 216).

Modern humanity’s placing into question its “living being” has two dimensions: what does it mean for the human being to be a living being, and what is the living, what is life? Biohistory therefore names both the trace, or the history of the deliberate, calculated, concerted intervention of powerknowledge into the very biological makeup of humans, and also the history of the different conceptions of the “living” that have been mobilized, deployed, conceptualized, and conjured up to serve the political technologies that aimed to intervene at the level of biological existence.

In this text, Foucault wrote: The fact that man lives in a conceptually structured environment does not prove that he has turned away from life, or that a historical drama has separated him from it – just that he lives in a certain way, that he has a relationship with his environment such that he has no set point of view toward it, that he is mobile on Biohistory / 35 an undeined or a rather broadly deined territory, that he has to move around in order to gather information, that he has to move things relative to one another in order to make them useful.

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