Foundations of Knowledge in Max Frisch's "Man in the Holocene" and Foucault's "The Order of Things"
Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject German Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 9, Leiden University, course: Narrative, Voice and Fiction, language: English, abstract: Man in the Holocene is very much about a quest for or even the possibility to have a knowledge of the world. This is apparent in Geiser's efforts to fathom and order his surroundings by accumulating a wealth of knowledge represented by the considerable amount of secondary texts with which the main body of text is interlaced. Emphasis seems to be laid on man's finitude as a foundation of knowledge and the consequent self- constitutive power of the individual to produce knowledge. The mental deterioration of Geiser seems to further stress the finitude of man as a condition for knowledge. However, as Foucault poignantly makes clear, Man is a very recent invention and the individual is not self-constitutive of knowledge. Man thinks he is sovereign, all the while he is necessarily and inevitably bound by bodies of discourse that form the condition of his existence.
| Autor: | Roeters, Sjors |
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| EAN: | 9783668430099 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 20 |
| Produktart: | kartoniert, broschiert |
| Verlag: | GRIN Verlag |
| Untertitel: | The Tiger and the Open Window |
| Schlagworte: | Sprache, allgemein & Nachschlagewerke Frisch Foucault TheOrderofThings ArchealogyofKnowledge ManintheHolocene AnalyticofFinitude Novel literarystudies Germanliterature discourse conditionsofknowledge |
| Größe: | 1 × 148 × 210 |
| Gewicht: | 45 g |
