Wednesday, 15 December 2021

Foucault

 “Goya’s Idiot who shrieks and twists his shoulder to escape from the nothingness that imprisons him—is this the birth of the first man and his first movement toward liberty, or the last convulsion of the last dying man?”

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 Excellent and very subtle follow-up — and you’re right to catch the tension here. At first glance, the way Spinoza talks about “essence” ( ...