Journ茅e d鈥橢tudes Poster
聽In the summer of 1966 Foucault prepared to take on his much anticipated first position as a professor of philosophy, but unlike Kafka鈥檚 hapless countryman, Foucault did not patiently wait for the institution of philosophy to finally open its door! He custom-built his own door by generating a model of the entirety of philosophy since Descartes, developing a combinatory matrix with four functions,聽聽four domains, and two dominant combinations, a matrix so complete it even programmed the four grand types of history of philosophy today. Yet he decided to not publish 鈥 to never publish 鈥 his diagnosis of philosophy. Why? The mystery remains.聽聽
To explore the mystery we will be joined by speakers including: