A Philosophical Discourse as Far and as Close as Possible to the Language of Fiction. Philosophy, Literature and Fiction after the great Nietzschean mutation in Michel Foucault’s "Le Discours philosophique"
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In this contribution we propose to analyze the way in which Michel Foucault approaches the question of fiction and literature in Le Discours philosophique, an essay written in 1966, just after the publication of Les Mots et les choses, and published recently, in May 2023. More recent discussions of this essay have already highlighted certain difficulties regarding the role and function of literature, or rather of “literary discourse” or fiction, as presented in this archaeological history of philosophy that Foucault did not publish during his lifetime.
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