Occupation: Philosopher Birth: August 10, 1924 Death: April 21, 1998
A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before..
On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear t….
Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and local cu….
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.
The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given us as much terror as we can take. We have paid a high enough price for the nostalgia of the whole a….
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological rep….
He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right throu….
Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse..
Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the go….
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that dec….
It is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented..
One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to….
What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by socie….
Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for t….
The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers.
Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives..