French physicist who determined the speed of light and showed that it travels slower in water than in air

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Nietzsche to Heidegger, from Ayer to Wittgenstein, from Derrida to Foucault, from Adorno to Lyotard.

This problematic has been posed by authors from Luka cs to Benjamin, from Adorno to the later Wittgenstein, from Foucault to Deleuze, and indeed by nearly all those who have recognized the twilight of modernity.

Under the command of Messire Jean Foucault, Messire Geoffroy de Saint-Bellin, Lord Hugh Kennedy, a Scotchman, and Captain Baretta, they sallied forth from the town.

Foucault cites pirate ships and brothels as exemplary instances of heterotopia in modern Western culture: virtual spaces, as it were, for a time before computers.

Foucault identified himself with the broad lineage of Kant, and why he went out of his way to identify his points of agreement with Habermas.

Thus the speed of light which has been measured by observers such as Fizeau and Foucault reveals itself as a function of the gravitational constant of the earth, and hence has validity for this sphere only.

I use the term, also has a rich philosophical background, beginning most notably with Leibniz and Kant, and running through the hermeneuticists to Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gebser, Foucault, Gadamer, Piaget, Habermas, the structuralists, etc.

From Nietzsche to Bataille to Foucault, from Heidegger to Derrida to Lyotard, the critics have continued their assault, with the postmodern poststructuralists being merely the most recent, although possibly the loudest and most gauche, of the long line of antimodernists.

Foucault himself abandoned the extreme relativism of this "archaeological" endeavor and subsumed it in a more balanced approach (that would include continuities as well as abrupt discontinuities.

This story, I think, would have delighted Foucault, for it envelops all his theses on sex and power.

Foucault, in his archaeological period, outdid them both, situating the both of them (structuralism and hermeneutics) in an episteme (later, dispositif) that itself was the cause and context of the type of people that would even want to do hermeneutics and structuralism in the first place.

In postmodern culture, as Deleuze says explicating Foucault, "the forces in man enter into relation with forces from the outside, those of silicon replacing carbon, of genetic components replacing the organism, of agrammaticalities replacing the signifier.

As Deleuze says, explicating Foucault, "an inside deeper than any internal world" immediately encounters "an outside more distant than any external world.

On old Earth they had honored its earliest known inventor by naming it the Foucault pendulum.

Rather, Foucault came to see that it has to be supplemented with Left-Hand approaches and a more balanced overview, including not only nondiscursive social practices but also hermeneutic interiors (or, at the least, a better interpretation of interpretation).