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Author Privitera, Walter, 1954-

Title Problems of style : Michel Foucault's epistemology / Walter Privitera ; translated by Jean Keller
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [1995]
©1995

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Description xv, 168 pages ; 23 cm
Series SUNY series in social and political thought
SUNY series in social and political thought.
Contents 1. Bachelard's Historical Epistemology. Scientific Progress and Traditional Epistemology. Constructions. Interregional Rationalism and Discontinuity. The Epistemological Obstacle. Bachelard's Philosophy -- 2. Foucault: The Early Writings and the Structuralist Period. Dream Analysis. The Dream, Madness, and the Critique of Psychology. The Critique of the Human Sciences. Anti-Science -- 3. The Archaeology. The Disintegration of Immediacy. Statement, Discourse, Rules of Formation. The Semiologization of the Imaginary. The Neutralization of the Validity Problematic -- 4. The Theory of Power. The Dualism within Power. Descent and Emergence: The Dualism within Genealogy. The Will to Knowledge and Traditional Epistemology. Power and Life-Practice. The Creative A Priori -- 5. An Overview. The Struggle for Objectification. New Subjects of Struggles. Hidden Normativity. Foucault's "Applied Rationalism" A Technology of Liberation? The Aesthetics of Existence -- 6. Concluding Remarks
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-158) and index
Notes Translation of: Stilprobleme
Subject Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
Bachelard, Gaston, 1884-1962.
Knowledge, Theory of -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form History.
LC no. 94010398
ISBN 0791423344 paperback alkaline paper
0791423336 alkaline paper
Other Titles Stilprobleme. English