Abandoning Knowledge: Disciplines, Discourse, Dogma

Abstract

Indeed, it is still quoted in the tourist materials handed out by guides at Chartres. Yet, unlike HenryJames or T. S. Eliot, Adams never induced a critical school into being, or, to put it differently, there were never critical apologists for Adams's work. Borrowing a figure from Michel Foucault, we can say Adams has never been an initiator of discursive practice, as were Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche. What this means is that his work never set in motion a series of intellectual and institutional