Towards A Critique Of Foucault

Author : Mike Gane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135174521

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Towards a critique of Foucault by Mike Gane Pdf

The work of Michel Foucault, one of the most influential of modern French social theorists and philosophers, has had a dramatic and far-reaching effect on many disciplines. The essays in this reissued collection, originally published in 1986, present Foucault's work as an important contribution to the theoretical analysis of history, language and power. They also represent a critical response to this contribution, encouraging readers not only to read Foucault for themselves, but to think about some new problems in a new way.

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:657975293

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Towards a Critique of Foucault by Michel Foucault Pdf

Author : Simon During
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000153248

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Foucault and Literature by Simon During Pdf

The writings of the French historian, literary critic and philosopher Michel Foucault have been of immense importance to developments in literary studies since the late 1970s. He, more than anyone, stands behind the new historicism' and cultural materialism' that currently dominate international literary studies. Simon During provides a detailed introduction to the whole body of Foucault's work, with a particular emphasis on his literary theory. His study takes in Foucault's early studies of transgressive' writing from Sade and Artaud to the French new novellists' of the 1960s, and his later concern with the genealogy of the author/intellectual, writing and theorizing within specific, historical mechanisms of social control and production. Foucault and Literature offers a critique both of Foucault and of the literary studies that have been influenced by him, and goes on to develop new methods of post-Foucauldian literary/cultural analysis.

Author : Barry Smart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135174590

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Foucault, Marxism and Critique by Barry Smart Pdf

In this work, originally released in 1983, Barry Smart examines the relevance of Foucault's work for developing an understanding of those issues which lie beyond the limits of Marxist theory and analysis - issues such as 'individualising' forms of power, power-knowledge relations, the rise of 'the social', and the associated socialisation of politics. He argues that there exist clear and substantial differences between Foucault's genealogical analysis and that of Marxist theory. Smart thus presents Foucault's work as a new form of critical theory, whose object is a critical analysis of rationalities, and of how relations of power are rationalised.

Author : Colin Koopman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253006233

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Genealogy as Critique by Colin Koopman Pdf

Viewing Foucault in the light of work by Continental and American philosophers, most notably Nietzsche, Habermas, Deleuze, Richard Rorty, Bernard Williams, and Ian Hacking, Genealogy as Critique shows that philosophical genealogy involves not only the critique of modernity but also its transformation. Colin Koopman engages genealogy as a philosophical tradition and a method for understanding the complex histories of our present social and cultural conditions. He explains how our understanding of Foucault can benefit from productive dialogue with philosophical allies to push Foucaultian genealogy a step further and elaborate a means of addressing our most intractable contemporary problems.

Author : Lois McNay
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745667850

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Foucault by Lois McNay Pdf

This work provides an introduction to the work of Michel Foucault. It offers an assessment of all of Foucault's work, including his final writings on governmentality and the self. McNay argues that the later work initiates an important shift in his intellectual concerns which alters any retrospective reading of his writings as a whole. Throughout, McNay is concerned to assess the normative and political implications of Foucault's social criticism. She goes beyond the level of many commentators to look at the values from which Foucault's work springs and reveals the implicit assumptions underlying his social critique. The author also provides an account and assessment of recent literature on Foucault, including that of Habermas and Taylor. She discusses Foucault's position in the modernity/postmodernity debate, his own ambivalence to Enlightenment thought and his place in recent developments in feminist and cultural theory.

Author : Deborah Cook
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781788730815

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Adorno, Foucault and the Critique of the West by Deborah Cook Pdf

The alliance of critical theory between Frankfurt and Paris Adorno, Foucault and the Critique of the West argues that critical theory continues to offer valuable resources for critique and contestation during this turbulent period. To assess these resources, it examines the work of two of the twentieth century's more prominent social theorists: Theodor W. Adorno and Michel Foucault. Although Adorno was situated squarely in the Marxist tradition that Foucault would occasionally challenge, Deborah Cook demonstrates that their critiques of our current predicament are complementary in important respects. Among other things, these critiques converge in their focus on the historical conditions-economic in Adorno and political in Foucault-that gave rise to the racist and authoritarian tendencies that continue to blight the West. Cook also shows that, when Adorno and Foucault plumb the economic and political forces that have shaped our identities, they offer remarkably similar answers to the perennial question: What is to be done?

Author : John Caputo,Mark Yount
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271041933

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Foucault and the Critique of Institutions by John Caputo,Mark Yount Pdf

Author : Nathaniel Lewis Scrimshaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1430800369

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Towards a Critique of Foucault's Concept of Power by Nathaniel Lewis Scrimshaw Pdf

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1984-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780394713403

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The Foucault Reader by Michel Foucault Pdf

Michel Foucault was one of the most influential philosophical thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But of his many books, not one offers a satisfactory introduction to the entire complex body of his work. The Foucault Reader was commissioned precisely to serve that purpose. The Reader contains selections from each area of Foucault's work as well as a wealth of previously unpublished writings, including important material written especially for this volume, the preface to the long-awaited second volume of The History of Sexuality, and interviews with Foucault himself, in the course of which he discussed his philosophy at first hand and with unprecedented candor. This philosophy comprises an astonishing intellectual enterprise: a minute and ongoing investigation of the nature of power in society. Foucault's analyses of this power as it manifests itself in society, schools, hospitals, factories, homes, families, and other forms of organized society are brought together in The Foucault Reader to create an overview of this theme and of the broad social and political vision that underlies it.

Author : Michael Kelly
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994-06-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262610930

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Critique and Power by Michael Kelly Pdf

The book juxtaposes key texts from Foucault and Habermas; it then adds a set of reactions and commentaries by theorists who have taken up the two alternative approaches to power and critique. The result is a guide for those seeking to understand and build on an unfinished debate between two of the 20th century's most important philosophers. Which paradigm of critique—Foucault's or Habermas's—is philosophically and practically superior, especially with regard to the nature and role of power in contemporary society? In shaping this collection, Michael Kelly has sought to address this question in relation to the ethical, political, and social theory of the past two decades. Michel Foucault and Jurgen Habermas had only just begun to come to terms with one another's work when Foucault died in 1984; they had even discussed the possibility of a formal debate on "Enlightenment" in the neutral arena of the United States. In the decade since, Habermas and his supporters have continued to respond to Foucault in various ways, but Foucault's followers have not shown as strong an inclination to keep up his side of the dialogue. For this reason an invaluable exchange on the nature and limits of philosophy in the present age has never achieved its full potential. In this anthology Michael Kelly recasts the debate in a way that will open it up for further development. The book starts by juxtaposing key texts from the two philosophers; it then adds a set of reactions and commentaries by theorists who have taken up the two alternative approaches to power and critique. (Two of these essays were written especially for this volume.) The result is a guide for those seeking to understand and build on this important but unfinished debate. Essays by: Michel Foucault. Jürgen Habermas. Axel Honneth. Nancy Fraser. Richard Bernstein. Thomas McCarthy. James Schmidt and Thomas E. Wartenberg. Gilles Deleuze. Jana Sawicki. Michael Kelly.

Author : Paul Veyne
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745683805

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Foucault by Paul Veyne Pdf

Michel Foucault and Paul Veyne: the philosopher and the historian. Two major figures in the world of ideas, resisting all attempts at categorization. Two timeless thinkers who have long walked and fought together. In this short book Paul Veyne offers a fresh portrait of his friend and relaunches the debate about his ideas and legacy. ‘Foucault is not who you think he is’, writes Veyne; he stood neither on the left nor on the right and was frequently disowned by both. He was not so much a structuralist as a sceptic, an empiricist disciple of Montaigne, who never ceased in his work to reflect on 'truth games', on singular, constructed truths that belonged to their own time. A unique testimony by a scholar who knew Foucault well, this book succeeds brilliantly in grasping the core of his thought and in stripping away the confusions and misunderstandings that have so often characterized the interpretation of Foucault and his work.

Author : Thomas Lemke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317259534

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Foucault, Governmentality, and Critique by Thomas Lemke Pdf

Michel Foucault is one of the most cited authors in social science. This book discusses one of his most influential concepts: governmentality. Reconstructing its emergence in Foucault's analytics of power, the book explores the theoretical strengths the concept of governmentality offers for political analysis and critique. It highlights the intimate link between neoliberal rationalities and the problem of biopolitics including issues around genetic and reproductive technologies. This book is a useful introduction to Foucault's work on power and governmentality suitable for experts and students alike

Author : Ben Golder
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804796514

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Foucault and the Politics of Rights by Ben Golder Pdf

This book focuses on Michel Foucault's late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics of rights in the contemporary era. As several commentators have observed, something quite remarkable happens in this late work. In his early career, Foucault had been a great critic of the liberal discourse of rights. Suddenly, from about 1976 onward, he makes increasing appeals to rights in his philosophical writings, political statements, interviews, and journalism. He not only defends their importance; he argues for rights new and as-yet-unrecognized. Does Foucault simply revise his former positions and endorse a liberal politics of rights? Ben Golder proposes an answer to this puzzle, which is that Foucault approaches rights in a spirit of creative and critical appropriation. He uses rights strategically for a range of political purposes that cannot be reduced to a simple endorsement of political liberalism. Golder develops this interpretation of Foucault's work while analyzing its shortcomings and relating it to the approaches taken by a series of current thinkers also engaged in considering the place of rights in contemporary politics, including Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Jacques Rancière.

Author : Steven Best,Douglas Kellner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,5 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.