Book | Chapter
16 december 1970
pp. 22-30
Abstract
LAST WEEK, I TRIED to analyze an apparently quite commonplace passage from Aristotle. It concerned the desire to know and its natural character. But, by studying the terms a bit more closely, we saw that this natural desire to know was shown first of all by a pleasure taken in a useless sensation.
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Foucault Michel (2013) Lectures on the will to know and Oedipal knowledge: lectures at the Collège de France 1970–1971. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Pages: 22-30
Full citation:
Foucault Michel (2013) 16 december 1970, In: Lectures on the will to know and Oedipal knowledge, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 22–30.