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(2013) Lectures on the will to know and Oedipal knowledge, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

16 december 1970

Michel Foucault

pp. 22-30

LAST WEEK, I TRIED to analyze an apparently quite commonplace passage from Aristotle. It concerned the desire to know and its natural character. But, by studying the terms a bit more closely, we saw that this natural desire to know was shown first of all by a pleasure taken in a useless sensation.

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DOI: 10.1057/9781137044860_2

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Foucault, M. (2013). 16 december 1970, in Lectures on the will to know and Oedipal knowledge, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 22-30.

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