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A 5 page research paper that investigates how three philosophers, Barthes, Foucault and Descartes, approach the topic of writing and authors. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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barriers, all classes, all exclusions...who mixes every language, even those said to be incompatible, ...who remains passive in the face of Socratic irony" (1980, p.1) The list goes
on before Barthes reaches the conclusion that such a person would be considered mockery in society. However, he then points out that this "anti-hero" is the :"reader" at the
moment that he "takes his pleasure" of a text (p 1). It is fascinating to note that this opening position could also be easily ascribed to Michel Foucault. In
fact, some critics have interpreted this text as Barthes late-career homage to Foucaults postmodernism. The following discussion will examine the ways that Barthes and Foucault look on the act
of writing, as well as the Cartesian worldview, which, more or less, provides the foundation from which modernism and postmodernism sprang. In his book Meditations on First Philosophy,
the seventeenth-century French philosopher Rene Descartes uses the interesting concept of an "evil demon," as powerful as God but deceptive, as an explanation for why his senses sometimes gave him
unreliable information about the nature of reality. This was part of Descartes overall discussion in which he outlined a method for examining knowledge. This method eventually evolved into what we
know as the scientific method, which is still used today for ascertaining reliable facts about the natural world. To accomplish his goal, which was to devise a method for obtaining
completely reliable information, Descartes questioned everything that he had previously assumed to be true. As this indicates, Descartes revolutionary perspective on the epistemology of knowledge served to destabilize the
traditional (i.e. medieval ) ways of looking at the natural world. This radical perspective essentially ushered in the modern scientific period with all of its accompanying change. With his Meditations,
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