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Amadís de Gaula (Zaragoza, 1508)

René Girard Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque

Pour qu'un vaniteux desire un objet il suffit de le convaincre que cet objet est deja desire par un tiers aquel s'attache un certain prestige. La mediateur est ici un rival que la vanite a d'abord suscite qu'elle a pour ainsi dire, appele a son existence de rival avant d'en exiger la defaite. p.20-21

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Michel Foucault Society Must Be Defended

A right of sovereignty and a mechanics of discipline. It is, I think, between these two limits that power is exercised. The two limits are, however, of such a kind and so heterogeneous that we can never reduce one to the other. In modern societies, power is exercised through, on the basis of, and in the very play of the heterogeneity between a public right of sovereignty and a polymorphous mechanics of discipline.

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