This Is Not a Pipe: Volume 24 (Second Edition, 25th Anniversa)

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ISBN-10: 0520236947
ISBN-13: 9780520236943
Publisher: University of California Press
Publish Date: 07/01/2008
Dimensions: 7.93" L, 5.03" W, 0.26" H

This Is Not a Pipe: Volume 24 (Second Edition, 25th Anniversa)

byMichel Foucault
Editor: James Harkness
Translator: James Harkness
Illustrator: René Magritte

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Overview

What does it mean to write “This is not a pipe” across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? René Magritte’s famous canvas provides the starting point for a delightful homage by French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault. Much better known for his incisive and mordant explorations of power and social exclusion, Foucault here assumes a more playful stance. By exploring the nuances and ambiguities of Magritte’s visual critique of language, he finds the painter less removed than previously thought from the pioneers of modern abstraction.

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"This essay not only proposes a new understanding of Magritte; it also constitutes a perfect illustration and introduction to the thought of the philosopher himself, France's great wizard of paradox."– "New York Review of Books"
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Details

ISBN-10: 0520236947
ISBN-13: 9780520236943
Publisher: University of California Press
Publish Date: 07/01/2008
Dimensions: 7.93" L, 5.03" W, 0.26" H
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