Rethinking experience with Foucault

In Christopher Falzon (ed.), Foucault and Philosophy. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 162--184 (2010)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Two Concepts of Experience The Matrix of Experience The Work of Thought Re‐Making Experience References.

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rethinking experience with Foucault   our experience of experience ‐ experience, always something new, something that impresses us with its “reality”   reading Foucault's work ‐ provides conceptual tools for understanding an experience   two concepts of experience ‐ foundational “limit‐experiences” of a culture   transformative experience ‐ capable of intervening and modifying everyday experience   The Order of Things (1966) and The History of Sexuality (1976) ‐ concept disappearing from Foucault's writings   matrix of experience, “transformative experience” ‐ our subjectivity, being grounded in a certain relation to self   treating experience, within its objective and subjective dimensions   Foucault's work, as investigating “the very historicity of forms of experience”   Foucault calling “thought” ‐ methodological principles, “the principle of irreducibility of thought”

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