Michel Foucault : Thought from Outside

• Main Authors: Hsiao-Chun Yin, 尹曉春
• Other Authors: 林春明
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/04896416145709058643

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 法國語文學系碩士班 === 98 === This is a thesis about Outside. The major work of the thesis is not only to understand and explain the concept of Outside but also to research its elements, its dynamic mode and its effects. In this thesis, we start from discussing of Outside through out the course of Foucault’s thinking, and explore this concept which exists all the time but had never appeared by studying up Foucault’s work over the years. “The Thought from Outside” was originally published in Critique, in which the content shows Foucault’s salutes to a litterateur Maurice Blanchot. In addition to this article of the same title, Foucault had never probed into this subject again for the rest of his life. After Foucault’s death, Deleuze carried forward this important but unvalued thought in his book “Foucault.” Based on the same reason, we must go deep in to the article “The Thought from Outside” in order to realize what’s the thought from Outside referred by Foucault. Then, we try to relate it with the subsequent works of Foucault to examine the value implicated in his thought. During the studying, “The Though from Outside” was a basement to specify the image of “Outside,” besides, Deleuze’s interpretation and Foucault’s other writings were the reference of this research as well. Hence, for the arrangement of the chapters, we choose <The Limits> and <The folds> as the themes of the first two chapters to deal with, the main reference texts were La pensée du dehors by Michel Foucault and Foucault by Deleuze. In the overall content we at first attempt to treat the thinking of the Limits by Foucault, and then enter the Fold, the Subjectification, and finally conclude the nature of Outside and try to integrate the previous concept(s).