Tag: freedom
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Questioning the Living and Living the Question: What Makes Life Precious?
The question of life and the meaning of life — if indeed they are one and the same — is one that has followed me since my teenage years. Recently, it has returned to the forefront as time has finally given me some room to breathe after overcoming certain hurdles in my private life (and…
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Freedom and Structure: Sartre’s Praxis as a Critique of Foucault’s Theory of Discourse
1. Introduction This essay compares and contrasts Foucault’s and Sartre’s approaches to understanding history, firstly by examining Foucault’s theory of discourse in his The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969) and Sartre’s concept of individual praxis from his Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960). While Sartre’s Critique was not a response to Foucault’s philosophy, as it was published almost a decade prior to Foucault’s Archaeology,…
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