Askesis and Critique: Foucault and Benjamin.
While Foucault referred to Benjamin just once in his entire corpus, scholars have long noticed affinities between the two thinkers, mainly between their conceptions of history: their emphasis on discontinuity, their historiographical practices, and the role of archives in their work. This essay focu...
| Publicado en: | Foucault Studies no. 32; pp. 28 - 54 |
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