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By Paul Veyne

Michel Foucault and Paul Veyne: the thinker and the historian. significant figures on this planet of rules, resisting all makes an attempt at categorization. undying thinkers who've lengthy walked and fought jointly. during this brief ebook Paul Veyne bargains a clean portrait of his good friend and relaunches the talk approximately his principles and legacy. ‘Foucault isn't really who you think that he is’, writes Veyne; he stood neither at the left nor at the correct and used to be usually disowned through either. He used to be no longer quite a bit a structuralist as a sceptic, an empiricist disciple of Montaigne, who by no means ceased in his paintings to mirror on 'truth games', on singular, developed truths that belonged to their very own time.

a special testimony by means of a pupil who knew Foucault good, this publication succeeds brilliantly in greedy the center of his concept and in stripping away the confusions and misunderstandings that experience so usually characterised the translation of Foucault and his work.

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