[CITATION][C] The discourse on language
M Foucault - Truth: Engagements across philosophical …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
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The Discourse on Language Page 1 20 THE DISCOURSE ON LANGUAGE and “Truth and
Power” Michel Foucault I would really like to have slipped imperceptibly into this lecture, as
into all the others I shall be delivering, perhaps over the years ahead. I would have preferred to
be enveloped in words, borne way beyond all possible beginnings. At the moment of speaking,
I would like to have perceived a nameless voice, long preceding me, leaving me merely to
enmesh myself in it, taking up its cadence, and to lodge myself, when no one was looking, in …
Power” Michel Foucault I would really like to have slipped imperceptibly into this lecture, as
into all the others I shall be delivering, perhaps over the years ahead. I would have preferred to
be enveloped in words, borne way beyond all possible beginnings. At the moment of speaking,
I would like to have perceived a nameless voice, long preceding me, leaving me merely to
enmesh myself in it, taking up its cadence, and to lodge myself, when no one was looking, in …
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