Foucault in California - Wade, Simeon
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A âwildly entertainingâ? and âmasterlyâ? memoir (Times Literary Supplement) now in paperbackIn The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking ânostalgicallyâ¿of â¿an unforgettable evening on LSD, in carefully prepared doses, in the desert night, with delicious music, [and] nice people.â¿â? This came to pass in 1975, when Foucault spent Memorial Day weekend in Southern California at the invitation of Simeon Wadeâ¿ostensibly to guest-lecture at the Claremont Graduate School where Wade was an assistant professor, but in truth to explore what he called…mehr

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A âwildly entertainingâ? and âmasterlyâ? memoir (Times Literary Supplement) now in paperbackIn The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking ânostalgicallyâ¿of â¿an unforgettable evening on LSD, in carefully prepared doses, in the desert night, with delicious music, [and] nice people.â¿â? This came to pass in 1975, when Foucault spent Memorial Day weekend in Southern California at the invitation of Simeon Wadeâ¿ostensibly to guest-lecture at the Claremont Graduate School where Wade was an assistant professor, but in truth to explore what he called the Valley of Death. Led by Wade and Wadeâ¿s partner Michael Stoneman, Foucault experimented with psychotropic drugs for the first time; by morning he was crying and proclaiming that he knew Truth. Foucault in California is Wadeâ¿s firsthand account of that long weekend. Felicitous and often humorous prose vaults readers headlong into the erudite and subversive circles of the Claremont intelligentsia: parties in Wadeâ¿s bungalow, intensive dialogues between Foucault and his disciples at a Taoist utopia in the Angeles Forest (whose denizens call Foucault âCountry Joeâ?); and, of course, the fabled synesthetic acid trip on the multihued slopes of the Artistâ¿s Palette at Death Valley, set to the strains of Bach and Stockhausen. Part search for higher consciousness, part bacchanal, this book chronicles a young manâ¿s burgeoning friendship with one of the twentieth centuryâ¿s greatest thinkers.
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Simeon Wade was born July 22, 1940, in Alabama. After earning his Ph.D. in the intellectual history of Western civilization from Harvard in 1969, Wade moved to California and became an assistant professor at Claremont Graduate School. His early teaching years culminated in his hosting a Death Valley trip for Michel Foucault in 1975, an experience Foucault described as "one of the most important in my life." Wade later taught at several universities in Southern California and worked as a psychiatric nurse. He died in Oxnard, California, on October 3, 2017.