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Foucault on Modernity

Wednesday, September 17, 2008
'Here I think, we are touching on one of the forms - perhaps we should call them "habits" - one of the most harmful habits in contemporary thought: the analysis of the present as being precisely, in history, a present of rupture, or of high point, or of completion or of a returning dawn, and so on.'

Michel Foucault, 'Structuralism and Post-Structuralism' in Aesthetics: Essential Works of Foucault 1954 - 1984, 433-458 (p. 449).

 

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