This Is Not a Pipe
Michel Foucault
University of California Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Kunst
Beschreibung
What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? René Magritte's famous canvas provides the starting point for a delightful homage by French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault. Much better known for his incisive and mordant explorations of power and social exclusion, Foucault here assumes a more playful stance. By exploring the nuances and ambiguities of Magritte's visual critique of language, he finds the painter less removed than previously thought from the pioneers of modern abstraction.
What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? René Magritte's famous canvas provides the starting point for a delightful homage by French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault. Much better known for his i
![Cover "e;What Is Critique?"e; and "e;The Culture of the Self"e;](https://cdn.libreka.de/cover/f15be6f6-8bc7-42c9-81de-7e5340da84a5/m ""e;What Is Critique?"e; and "e;The Culture of the Self"e;")
Kundenbewertungen
french literature, literal painting, abstract art, french philosopher, complex relationship, mordant explorations, ambiguous, poststructuralist, theory philosophy, sex and sexuality, magritte, power discourse, literary theory, sociology, rhetoric and discourse, literary criticism, modern abstraction, famous philosophers, political statement, famous art, philosophy, critique of language, surrealism, cultural studies, social exclusion, nuanced, french