Terence Blake’s ‘ON THE “OBSCURITY” OF CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY: the case of Foucault’

 

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ON THE “OBSCURITY” OF CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY: the case of Foucault

 

In Blake’s post ‘DELEUZE ON DIALOGUE: DISCUSSION vs CONVERSATION’ (mentioned here), he offers some useful translations from Deleuze’s Two Regimes of Madness on the topic of discussion and conversation. In this post, ON THE “OBSCURITY” OF CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY: the case of Foucault, he adds another translation from that text:

Deleuze was quite adamant that the work of philosophy has nothing to do with “conversations” of this sort, that he called “discussions”:

Discussion is a narcissistic exercise, where each person takes turns showing off: very quickly, no one knows what they are talking about (TWO REGIMES OF MADNESS, p 380, translation modified by me).

(Terence Blake)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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