Just had to pass this on: Powells.com is having a "Foucault sale." Yes, you heard me. When I saw that, I peered suspiciously at the screen, wondering if I'd had too much wine with dinner. I had to investigate, of course. So here's the deal: Powells is selling, for a limited time, eleven titles by Foucault at a 30% discount. (For a list of the titles, go here.) Interestingly, they've put at the top of their Foucault sale page a large apple chewed nearly to its core, along with the invitation to "Feed Your Brain."
It's a charming idea. Perhaps next they ought to have a Simone de Beauvoir sale. Or a Virginia Woolf sale.
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To say nothing of how easy Foucault is to read, compared to Woolf. Or Arendt. Or Goldman. Or...
Yeh, Foucault's one of the easier ones, except for Archaeology of Knowledge: certainly smoother going than The Waves. I don't think Arendt's prose is that hard; but many of her views aren't terribly pleasant to read, esp. if you're black.
We'll have to disagree about Woolf.
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