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Desire and discourse in Foucault: The sign of the fig leaf in Michelangelo's David

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    Kenneth Colburn Jr.

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Parts of this paper were presented in October, 1984, at the annual meetings of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Atlanta, Georgia, and the Semiotic Society of America, Bloomington, Indiana. I am indebted to Michael Herzfeld, Gisela J. Hinkle, Mary C. Moore, and James Valone for their critical comments and suggestions on earlier versions of this paper. I would also like to express appreciation to my research assistant Paul C. Arnn.

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Colburn, K. Desire and discourse in Foucault: The sign of the fig leaf in Michelangelo's David . Hum Stud 10, 61–79 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00142986

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