Foucault, or the Ends of Modernism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5135923 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Rajchman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Pages | 37 |
| Publication date | 1983-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | October (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2870 • E-ISSN: 1536-013X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/778592 |
| OpenAlex | W2317381064 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The whole relentless theorization of writing which we saw in the 1960s was doubtless only a swansong. Through it the writer was fighting for the preservation of his political privilege; but the fact that it was precisely a matter of theory, that he needed scientific credentials, founded in linguistics, semiology, psychoanalysis, that this theory took its references from the direction of Saussure or Chomsky, etc., and that it gave rise to such mediocre literary products, all this proves that the activity of the writer was no longer at the focus of things. . . . we are at present experiencing the disappearance of the figure of the great writer
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Modernism (music · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1984 - 2021 (38) |
| Highly cited | No |