Summary
Didier Eribon: Michel Foucault - A Biography
When it appeared in 1989, five years after Foucault's death, this biography was internationally hailed as an event. By researching unpublished archives, Didier Eribon masterfully evoked a thousand known and unknown faces of philosophers whose entire work can be read as a rebellion against the violence of norms and "normality". Eribon, sensing the uniqueness of this enigmatic man, placed his passionately critical thought in different periods, presenting it in the most diverse dimensions - philosophical, political, sexual - in order to fully present the French intellectual life of the second half of the 20th century.
The new edition of the biography from 2011, completely revised, has been greatly expanded with numerous details concerning Foucault's connections - positive and negative - with Georges Dimesille, Louis Althusser, Jacques Derrida, Pierre Bourdieu, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan, Sartre, Lévy Stross and other important contemporaries from French intellectual, cultural and political life.
What is philosophical existence? How does the theoretical position fit into the lived experience? These are the questions that this paper intends to ask anew in order to restore the radicality of Foucault's attitude and his legacy. In this sense, this biography pays a lot of attention to Foucault's tireless political involvement, that aspect of his life that is perhaps the least known to the Serbian reader.
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