| Description |
vi, 246 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / David Couzens Hoy -- The archaeology of Foucault / Ian Hacking -- Foucault and epistemology / Richard Rorty -- The politics of Michael Foucault / Michael Walzer -- Foucault on freedom and truth / Charles Taylor -- Taking aim at the heart of the present / Jurgen Habermas -- What is maturity? Habermas and Foucault on 'What is Enlightenment?' / Hubert L. Dreyfus, Paul Rabinow -- Power, repression, progress : Foucault, Lukes, and the Frankfurt School / David Couzens Hoy -- Foucault and the imagination of power / Edward W. Said -- The politics of truth and the problem of hegemony / Barry Smart -- In the empire of the gaze : Foucault and the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought / Martin Jay -- Foucault and the tyranny of Greece / Mark Poster -- Archaeology, genealogy, ethics / Arnold I. Davidson -- Self-improvement / Ian Hacking |
| Summary |
Michael Foucault's intellectual journeys carried him across many different disciplines and often into uncharted lands. His astonishing discoveries and claims have been received with both unbridled enthusiasm and vehement dissent. This collection of essays is the first to bring together major criticisms of Foucault by other writers with their own visions. From the perspective of philosophy, the history of science, intellectual history, sociology, political science, and literary criticism, the distinguished contributors to this book discuss forthrightly and fairly the difficulties and dangers of Foucault's explorations. Whether they attack or defend him, his texts are closely examined and carefully interpreted |
| Analysis |
French philosophy Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 - Critical studies |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
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Culture.
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Philosophers -- France -- 20th century.
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Philosophers, Modern.
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Philosophy, French -- 20th century.
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Social change.
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| Author |
Hoy, David Couzens.
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| LC no. |
86006786 |
| ISBN |
0631140433 |
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