Foucault And Postmodern Conceptions Of Reason

Author : Laurence Barry
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030489434

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Foucault and Postmodern Conceptions of Reason by Laurence Barry Pdf

​For decades Foucault was mostly known for his diagnosis of modernity as a form of entrapment, both in our modes of thought and our behaviors. This book argues that Foucault's reappraisal of modernity occurs with the 1978 and 1979 lectures, in which he sketches modern power as governmentality and neoliberalism. From this perspective, Foucault’s once surprising studies on the Greeks' constitution of the ‘self’ can be seen as a continuation of his diagnosis of late modernity, and as an attempt to retrieve a form of autonomy for our modern selves. One finds in the late Foucault a postmodern conception of reason and not a destruction of reason; but this is possible only if postmodernity is seen as a critical exercise of reason in the analysis of norms.

Author : C. G. Prado
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139491808

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Coping with Choices to Die by C. G. Prado Pdf

This book examines the reactions of the friends and family of those who elect to die due to terminal illness. These surviving spouses, partners, relatives and friends, in addition to coping with the death of a loved one, must also deal with the loved one's decision to die, thus severing the relationship. C. G. Prado examines how reactions to elective death are influenced by cultural influences and beliefs, particularly those related to life, death and the possibility of an afterlife. Understanding the role of these cultural influences on the grieving processes of survivors is a crucial step in allowing them to accept both intellectually and emotionally the finality of elective death and to deal with the decision of their loved one.

Author : Alan Milchman,Alan Rosenberg
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9042005912

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Postmodernism and the Holocaust by Alan Milchman,Alan Rosenberg Pdf

This book is the first sustained inquiry into the ways in which postmodern thinkers have grappled with the historical bases, implications, and methodological problems of the Holocaust. The book examines the thinking of Arendt, Levinas, Foucault, Lyotard, and Derrida, all of whom have recognized the centrality of the Nazi genocide to the epoch in which we live. The essays written for this volume constitute a wide-ranging study of the efforts of postmodernism to articulate the Holocaust.

Author : Marta Faustino,Gianfranco Ferraro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350134379

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The Late Foucault by Marta Faustino,Gianfranco Ferraro Pdf

Michel Foucault is one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century and one of the leading figures in contemporary Western intellectual life and debate. The recent publication of his last lecture courses at the Collège de France (1981-1984), together with the short texts, essays, and interviews from the same period, have sparked new interest in his work, allowing for a new understanding of his philosophical trajectory and challenging several interpretations produced over the last few decades. In this later phase of his thinking, Foucault deepens and expands the course of his preceding works on the genealogy of subjectivity, while at the same time adding a significant ethical and political dimension to it. His focus on the ancient ethics of care of the self and technologies of self-constitution during this period adds important nuances to his previous positions on power, truth, and subjectivity, shedding new light on his philosophical endeavour as a whole and situating his reflections at the centre of current moral debates. Focusing on the last stage of Foucault's thought, this book brings together international scholars to relaunch the critical debate on the significance of Foucault's so-called “ethical turn” and to discuss the ways in which the perspectives offered by Foucault in this period might help us to unravel modernity, giving us the tools to understand and transform our present, ethically and politically.

Author : University of Illinois at Chicago. Institute for the Humanities
Publisher : New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UOM:39015013526291

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After Foucault by University of Illinois at Chicago. Institute for the Humanities Pdf

The essays in this collection assess the impact of Michel Foucault's work on the conditions of disciplinary knowledge in humanistic studies and speculate on the directions we might take from his work. They cover a wide range of fundamental concerns; from philosophy of knowledge in both theoreticl and applied forms, to philology, history, psychoanalysis, feminism and politics. Whether the contributors would be counted as being for or against Foucault, all of them show that their understanding has been altered by the challenges his work has posed. In some cases Foucault's thought is severly criticized as an obstacle to effective understanding or action; in others, his thought offers a resource through which received opinion can be displayed.

Author : Stephen Ronald Craig Hicks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : 0983258406

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Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen Ronald Craig Hicks Pdf

Author : Stephen R. C. Hicks
Publisher : Scholargy Publishing, Inc.
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1592476422

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Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen R. C. Hicks Pdf

Author : Steven Best,Douglas Kellner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1991-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349217182

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Postmodern Theory by Steven Best,Douglas Kellner Pdf

An introduction to and critique of the latest trends in critical theory.

Author : Jürgen Habermas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745694474

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The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity by Jürgen Habermas Pdf

The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures. Introduction by Thomas McCarthy, translated by Frederick Lawrence.

Author : Matan Oram
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317284536

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Modernity and Crisis in the Thought of Michel Foucault by Matan Oram Pdf

Few studies of Foucault have examined his thought from a sustained interdisciplinary perspective. Through the interpretative prism of the concept of the ‘Totality of Reason’, this book suggests an original analytical reading of Foucault's thought. This book addresses Foucault’s characterizations of the Enlightenment, asking whether the developmental history of the modern conception of knowledge – from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment – warrants the conclusion he draws. From the perspective of a critical evaluation of Foucault's thesis on ‘the crisis of modernity’, the book examines whether Foucault, the philosophical and social critic, truly belongs to those intellectual trends known as a ‘deconstruction’ and ‘post-modernism’ that advocate a wholesale rejection of the project of modernity, demonstrating how a classification of this kind contributes to an impoverishment of our understanding of Foucault's thought. This book will attract the attention of readers interested in Foucault, and what is broadly perceived to be the ‘crisis of modernity’. It will appeal to scholars and advanced students of sociology, political philosophy and political science, psychology, philosophy, interdisciplinary studies and cultural studies.

Author : Andrew Barry,Thomas Osborne,Nikolas Rose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134222346

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Foucault And Political Reason by Andrew Barry,Thomas Osborne,Nikolas Rose Pdf

Foucault is often thought to have a great deal to say about the history of madness and sexuality, but little in terms of a general analysis of government and the state.; This volume draws on Foucault's own research to challenge this view, demonstrating the central importance of his work for the study of contemporary politics.; It focuses on liberalism and neo- liberalism, questioning the conceptual opposition of freedom/constraint, state/market and public/private that inform liberal thought.

Author : Karin Bauer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791495971

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Adorno's Nietzschean Narratives by Karin Bauer Pdf

This is the first book to provide a broad and comparative analysis of the relationship of these two influential thinkers to one another. Defying conventional appropriations of Nietzsche's and Adorno's thought, Bauer establishes crucial links between different traditions of critical thought, suggesting elective and selective affinities in the pursuit of a radicalized critique of ideology and culture. Against Habermas, Bauer argues that Nietzsche did not abandon the project of modernity, but rather achieved its most radical confrontation with the myths of the Enlightenment. Bauer's inquiry into Nietzsche's and Adorno's critiques of rationality, historicism, metaphysics, and Bildung culminates in an exposition of their readings of Wagner, who serves as a medium and supplement for their critiques of modern culture.

Author : Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0816611734

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The Postmodern Condition by Jean-François Lyotard Pdf

In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.

Author : Craig Browne
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783085026

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Habermas and Giddens on Praxis and Modernity by Craig Browne Pdf

In Habermas and Giddens on Praxis and Modernity Craig Browne investigates how two of the most important and influential contemporary social theorists have sought to develop the modernist visions of the constitution of society through the autonomous actions of subjects. Comparing Habermas’s and Giddens’s conceptions of the constitution of society, interpretations of the social-structural impediments to subjects’ autonomy and attempts to delineate potentials for progressive social change within contemporary society, Browne draws on his own work, which has extended aspects of the social theorists’ approach to modernity. Despite the criticisms developed over the course of the book, Habermas and Giddens are found to be two of the most important theorists of democratization and social democracy, the dynamics of capitalist modernity and their paradoxes, social practices and reflexivity, and the foundations of social theory in the problem of the relationship of social action and social structure.

Author : Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351787550

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The Transformation of Modernity by Michael Hviid Jacobsen Pdf

This title was first published in 2001: For over 30 years it has been argued that contemporary society is undergoing a fundamental transformation. The portrait of the modern society or modernity offered by philosophers and social scientists from Hobbes to Parsons is no longer understood as a description of the final and highest stage in the social evolution of mankind. Modern society is not the end of history but simply another more or less contingent social and cultural formation on planet earth. This new perspective on modernity and its transformation, which has emerged from the modernist-postmodernist debate, is the subject matter of this book. It is addressed in a multidisciplinary and international way, both theoretically and empirically, and is explored not only in general and historical terms, but also through specific topics such as sexuality, identity, democracy, globalization, knowledge and leadership. Offering an important collaborative contribution to contemporary discourse in sociology, social psychology, politics and philosophy, this book represents a unique effort to come to grips with our obscure and elusive social position at the start of the 21st century.