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On six women intellectuals: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus and Joan Didion

On six women intellectuals: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus and Joan Didion | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Sontag advocated “feeling management” and emotional regulation, insisting on the responsibility of the intellectual to keep personal feeling out.
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Appreciation: On Michel Foucault's Collected Works (Two-Volume Pléiade Edition) - Essay by Duncan Kelly

Appreciation: On Michel Foucault's Collected Works (Two-Volume Pléiade Edition) - Essay by Duncan Kelly | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Taken as a whole, reading Foucault from start to finish is like reading the major works of Henry James consecutively as self-conscious historical fictions.
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Great essay that sums up Foucault's genealogical approach in his works
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