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This is Not a Pipe

Paperback • 2008 • English

This is Not a Pipe

By Michel Foucault

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About the book

What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? Rene 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 th...Show more

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ISBN

9780520236943

Publisher

University of California Press

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

This is Not a Pipe

Format

Paperback

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