Foucault:
'...no one is more of a continuist than I am: to recognise a discontinuity
is never anything more than to register a problem that needs to be solved'
(Questions of Method, in THE FOUCAULT EFFECT, p. 76).
Regards,
C.
At 19:56 05/08/97 PDT, Jon wrote:
>Greetings one and all
>
>I'm posting this message in the hope that someone out there
>knows the location of a quotation that's not only been bugging me
>but also is important for some research.
>
>In some interview, Foucault responds (perhaps) to the claim that
>he is a historian of discontinuity by saying something like," No one is
>more a continuist than I am - all a discontinuity is for me is a
>problem to be solved".
>
>If anyone has any ideas, I would really appreciate a promt response.
>
>Ta
>
>
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