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I like that this promises to not be yet another retelling and straightforward discussion of the age of mechanisation and mathematicisation. I don't need another mechanical duck.
Lost me in the grammar section though. Seems to be a mix of stating the obvious and making stuff up. I feel like I just don't get the way philosophers work, so that I'm missing how there's any value in this mode of discussion.
citation needed
Foucault claims to be explaining historical systems of thought which have been completely forgotten in the intervening centuries. One wonders how he came by this knowledge. I'm going to have to see some historical sources and explanations of his deductions, or this is indistinguishable from coming straight from his imagination. Hopefully this is only the introduction chapter.
Test post. I read 2 chapters of Foucault on the train.
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