Speech Begins After Death
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Speech Begins After Death

In Conversation with Claude Bonnefoy

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eBook - ePub

Speech Begins After Death

In Conversation with Claude Bonnefoy

About this book

In 1968, Michel Foucault agreed to a series of interviews with critic Claude Bonnefoy, which were to be published in book form. Bonnefoy wanted a dialogue with Foucault about his relationship to writing rather than about the content of his books. The project was abandoned, but a transcript of the initial interview survived and is published here. In this brief and lively exchange, Foucault reflects on how he approached the written word throughout his life, from his school days to his discovery of the pleasure of writing.

Wide ranging, characteristically insightful, and unexpectedly autobiographical, the discussion sheds light on Foucault's intellectual development, his aims as a writer, his clinical methodology ("let's say I'm a diagnostician"), and his interest in other authors, including Raymond Roussel and Antonin Artaud. Foucault discloses, in ways he never had previously, details about his home life, his family history, and the profound sense of obligation he feels to the act of writing.

Speech Begins after Death shows Foucault adopting a new language, an innovative autobiographical communication that is neither conversation nor monologue, and is one of his most personal statements about his life and writing.

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Information

Publisher
Polity
Year
2026
Print ISBN
9781509571987
9781509571970
eBook ISBN
9781509571994

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Editor’s Note
  6. Introduction: Foucault and Audiography
  7. Interview between Michel Foucault and Claude Bonnefoy, 1968
  8. Chronologies of Michel Foucault and Claude Bonnefoy
  9. Contributors
  10. End User License Agreement

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