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Language, Madness, and Desire
As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound relationship with literature. And yet this critical aspect of his thought, because it was largely expressed in speeches and interviews, remains virtually unknown to even his most loyal readers. This book brings together previously unpublished transcripts of oral presentations in which Foucault speaks at length about literature and its links to some of his principal themes: madness, language and criticism, and truth and desire.
The associations between madness and language-and madness and silence-preoccupy Foucault in two 1963 radio broadcasts, presented here, in which he ranges among literary examples from Cervantes and Shakespeare to Diderot, before taking up questions about Artaud's literary correspondence, lettres de cachet, and the materiality of language. In his lectures on the relations among language, the literary work, and literature, he discusses Joyce, Proust, Chateaubriand, Racine, and Corneille, as well as the linguist Roman Jakobson. What we know as literature, Foucault contends, begins with the Marquis de Sade, to whose writing-particularly La Nouvelle Justine and Juliette-he devotes a full two-part lecture series focusing on notions of literary self-consciousness.
Following his meditations on history in the recently publishedSpeech Begins after Death,this current volume makes clear the importance of literature to Foucault's thought and intellectual development.
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VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE' AND AFGHANISTAN'S OCCUPATION
Unhappily, there are few cases where even a summary knowledge of history so completely pulverizes that theory as Afghanistan. From the start of the Revolution in 1917, the new Soviet power moved to eliminate British influence from Central Asia. A Soviet-Afghan treaty of friendship was signed on September 13, 1920, a prelude to a long series of treaties destined to tighten the Soviets' ties with Kabul. After the Second World War, the Soviet Union capitalized on the void left by Britain's retreat from India, the end of British influence, and above all the new situation that resulted from the creation of Pakistan to tie Kabul's foreign policy to her own. Alas, the United States understood nothing of what the Soviet Union was up to. In December 1954, [John Foster Dulles] refused military aid to Afghanistan and threw that country into Moscow's arms.
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