Normality in Husserl and Foucault.
Husserl and Foucault appear to have little in common when it comes to the question of normality. Husserl often discusses the emergence or constitution of norms from a subjective perspective whereas Foucault targets norms as a coercive problem. But if we recognize that the body is the locus of concer...
| Published in: | Research in Phenomenology Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 52 - 69 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2009
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