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WHAT IS AN AUTHOR?

From Foucault, Michel. “What is an Author?”
Trans. Donald F. Bouchard and Sherry Simon. In Language, Counter-Memory, Practice. Ed. Donald F. Bouchard. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1977. pp. 124-127. .
MICHEL FOUCAULT (1977)

Michel Foucault born Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984), was a French philosopher and historian of ideas. He held a chair at the prestigious Collège de France with the title “History of Systems of Thought,” and also taught at the University at Buffalo and the University of California, Berkeley. Foucault is best known for his critical studies of social institutions, most notably psychiatry, medicine, the human sciences, and the prison system, as well as for his work on the history of human sexuality. His writings on power, knowledge, and discourse have been widely influential. In the 1960s Foucault was associated with structuralism, a movement from which he distanced himself. Foucault also rejected the poststructuralist and postmodernist labels later attributed to him, preferring to classify his thought as a critical history of modernity rooted in Kant. Foucault’s project was particularly influenced by Nietzsche, his “genealogy of knowledge” a direct allusion to Nietzsche’s “genealogy of morality”. In a late interview he definitively stated: “I am a Nietzschean.” Foucault was listed as the most cited scholar in the humanities in 2007 by the ISI Web of Science.

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Pesantren and Kitab Kuning: Maintenance and Continuation of a Tradition of Religious Learning

Martin van Bruinessen *

One of Indonesia’s great traditions is that of Muslim religious learning as embodied in the Javanese pesantren and similar institutions in the outer islands and the Malay peninsula. The raison d’être of these institutions is the transmission of traditional Islam as laid down in scripture, i.e., classical texts of the various Islamic disciplines, together with commentaries, glosses and supercommentaries on these basic texts written over the ages. Lanjutkan membaca “Pesantren and Kitab Kuning: Maintenance and Continuation of a Tradition of Religious Learning”

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BUNG TOMO, THE HERO OF INDONESIAN POET

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Written by Nurel Javissyarqi *
Translated by Agus B. Harianto

Despite as Indonesian Presiden Penyair, Sutardji Calzoum Bachri once said; “a great poem had ever been created in the history of this nation.” It is the text of Sumpah Pemuda, which had announced on October 28, 1928. And before the term of swearing, sumpah pocong, etc. It had resonated sturdy grandeur of Palapa Oath, which had echoed by Patih Gajah Mada, from the empire of Majapahit in the land of Dwipa, which indelible in the world of Nusantara. Lanjutkan membaca “BUNG TOMO, THE HERO OF INDONESIAN POET”