Historicity of Hebrew, Archeology of Human Experience Stressed in Foucault Philosophy The author interestingly con- It is as an archeology of human experience that the highly ac- cludes: claimed French philosophic work "Man is neither the oldest nor by Michel Foucault, "The Order the most constant problem that of Things," appears in an English has been posed for human knowl- translation, published by Pantheon edge. Taking a relatively short Books. chronological sample within a In French it was published as restricted geographical area — "Les Moth et les Choses" and its European culture since the 16th basic text deals with the concept Century—one can be certain that man is a recent invention within of man. HOLIDAY GOOD CHEER CHARLES M. CLAPSADDLE 33 Vernier Road Grosse Pointe Shores TU 4-3980 '61M115-11111M51M515116MMI , Happy Passover LASTAR ELECTRIC CO. Electrical Contractors 31681 Dequindre Madison Heights, Mich. "6,=.•=•=••=•=.0.='= Happy Passover To All MR. AND MRS. MEYER LEVIN Foucault deals with history and its effects, with mercantilism, wealth, labor, every aspect of ho- 17606 Sussex I it. It is not around him and his secrets that knowledge prowled for so long in the darkness. In fact, among all the mutations that have affected the knowledge of things and their order, the knowledge of identities, diffe- rences, characters, equivalents, words—in short, in the midst of all the episodes of that profound history of the same—only one, that which began a century and a half ago and is now perhaps drawing to a close, has made it possible for the figure of man to appear. And that appearance was not the liberation of an old anxi- ety, the transition into luminous consciousness of an age-old con- cern, the entry into objectivity of something that had long re- mained trapped within beliefs and philosophies: it was the effect of a change in the funda- mental arrangements of knowl- edge. As the archeology of our thought shows, man is an inven- tion of recent date. And one per- haps nearing its end." Best Wishes for a Happy Passover Best Wishes for the Passover SAMUEL BRODY & SONS LLOYD'S BEAUTE ARTS 18215 Livernois UN 3-4516 14411 West Eight Mile Detroit 48235 341-6000 Passover Greetings Passover Greetings Peerless Deluxe Cleaners and Shirt Laundry From 26126 Greenfield, Oak Park 398-4555 Sol Zimmerman 31799 Middlebelt Farmington 851-1164 BESSENGER'S 23535 Woodward, Ferndale .2.2.32.151.9-CULSULLP Passover Greetings A Happy Passover Pollak Printing Co. CHRISALLE HAIR FASHIONS Complete Printing Service Specializing in Hair Tinting 2420 Grand River 17190 Livernois 862-2337 — 862-2338 WO 3-0895 BEST WISHES TO ALL OUR FRIENDS AND PATRONS FOR A JOYOUS PASSOVER rOBO el rik\IERS MR. AND MRS. EARL RUBY AND FAMILY 18135 'LIVERNOIS UN 3 - 0400 28—Friday, April 9, 1971 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Happy Passover man experience, and he places much emphasis on language, its objectives and developments. Of special interest in relation to Corrugated Cartons language is the following excerpt from his chapter on "The Prose 566-8640 23823. Dequindre, Hazel Park of the World": "In its original form, when it was given to men by God himself, • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 9 • • • • • • • • language was an absolutely certain • and transparent sign for things, Holiday Greetings to My Friends and Customers • because it resembled them. The • • • names of things were lodged in • • • • the things they designated, just as • • • strength is written in the body of Manufacturer of Fine Furs • the lion, regality in the eye of the • eagle, just as the influence of the • 271 W. MAPLE, Birmingham, Mich. 642-4440 • • planets is marked upon the brows • a* of men: by the form of similitude. E , b , • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • "This transparency was destroy- ed at Babel as a punishment for Happy Passover to All Our Friends and Patrons men. Languages became separated and incompatible with one another only in so far as they had previous- ly lost this original resemblance to Specializing in American Food the things that had been the prime Famous for All Chinese Native Foods Real Cantonese Family Dinners reason for the existence of lan- CARRY-OUT SERVICE guage. All the languages known to 322 W. McNICHOLS TO 8-7550 us are now spoken only against the background of this lost similitude, and in the space that it left vacant. Q_9 Q_9 SUL9 4_9 4.419 4_4_9-9 Q 4_9_9 9-4-4.9 4_9_9 4_9_4 4_9 Q.SULIL4.5 "There is only one language MANHATTAN CONTAINER CO. • • • •• JOHN KEYSTONE KOW KOW INN that retains a memory of that similitude, because it derives in direct descent from that first vocabulary which is now forgot- ten; because God did not wish men to forget the punishment in- flicted at Babel; because this language had to be used in or- der to recount God's ancient al- liance with his people; and last- ly, because it was in this lan- guage that God addressed him- self to those who listened to him. Hebrew therefore contains, as if in the form of fragments, the marks of that original name- giving. "And those words pronounced by Adam as he imposed them upon the various animals have endured, in part at least, and still carry with them in their density, like an embedded fragment of silent knowledge, the unchanging prop- erties of beings: "Thus the stork, so greatly laud- ed for its charity towards its father and its mother, is called in Hebrew Hasida, which is to say, meek, char- itable, endowed with pity .. . The horse is named Sus, thought to be from the verb Hasas, unless that verb is rather derived from the noun, and it signifies to rise up, for among all four-footed animals the horse is most proud and brave, as Job depicts it in 39:29. "But these are no more than fragmentary monuments; all other languages have lost these radical similitudes, which have been pre- served in Hebrew only in order to show that it was once the common language of God, Adam and the animals of the newly created earth." —P.S. Passover Best Wishes JEFFERSON STEEL CO. WAREHOUSE 23250 SHERWOOD Happy Passover HANDLEMAN COMPANY ARC DISTRIBUTOR — JAY-KAY DISTRIBUTOR 670 E. Woodbridge Ave. FASHIONS FOR MEN OF ALL AGES Ihvbq's Stores for Men and Boys Detroit, Michigan NORTHLAND Amsterdam Is Shocked by Former-SS Visitor AMSTERDAM (JTA)—An Aus- trian parliamentarian, Friedrich Peter, who arrived here for a week's study-tour with a group of Austrian educators, disclosed to newsmen that he had been an SS officer during World War II. Shock at the news reverberated through Dutch circles and head- lines in the Dutch paper "De Tele- graaf" declared: "Austria Sends Us Delegation Which Includes Nazis." 539-3700 Warren, Michigan MON.-SAT. to 9. SUNDAY 12-5 Passover Greetings to Our Many Friends and Customers iumrs p c 'Arta la/ Classified Ads Get Quick Results