Foucault and Shakespeare’s pedants, dotards and drunks
Foucault’s claim that the Renaissance organised knowledge in terms of the episteme of resemblance can be challenged in principle and on empirical grounds. I argue that the empirical challenge can be delivered, first, by pointing to three Shakespeare scenes in which the use of analogy as a means of p...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Afrikaans |
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1990-05-01
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| Series: | Literator |
| Online Access: | https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/811 |
| Summary: | Foucault’s claim that the Renaissance organised knowledge in terms of the episteme of resemblance can be challenged in principle and on empirical grounds. I argue that the empirical challenge can be delivered, first, by pointing to three Shakespeare scenes in which the use of analogy as a means of presenting knowledge is repudiated; and, second, by pointing to alternative ways of organising knowledge: classical authority, logic and rhetoric. The “theoretical” challenge must be delivered by questioning Foucault’s presuppositions. |
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| ISSN: | 0258-2279 2219-8237 |