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…mehr
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.
Matan Oram is Senior Lecturer at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction PART I: Rationalism and Critical Thought 1. The Beginnings of Critical Thought 2. The Limits of Rationalism 3. The Enlightenment - between the Horizon of Hope and the Anatomy of Despair PART II: Michel Foucault and the Critical Discourse on Modernity: The Roots of Disciplinary Violence 4. Ordering 5. The Manipulative Power of Reason 6. Corrective Reason - Knowledge and Confinement 7. The Human and the Scientific: The Invention of Man 8. The Social Discourse - Criticism or Negation? 9. Phenomenological Tone of Critical Discourse 10. Parrhesia and the Changing Political Imagination 11. Conclusion: The Totality of Reason
Introduction PART I: Rationalism and Critical Thought 1. The Beginnings of Critical Thought 2. The Limits of Rationalism 3. The Enlightenment - between the Horizon of Hope and the Anatomy of Despair PART II: Michel Foucault and the Critical Discourse on Modernity: The Roots of Disciplinary Violence 4. Ordering 5. The Manipulative Power of Reason 6. Corrective Reason - Knowledge and Confinement 7. The Human and the Scientific: The Invention of Man 8. The Social Discourse - Criticism or Negation? 9. Phenomenological Tone of Critical Discourse 10. Parrhesia and the Changing Political Imagination 11. Conclusion: The Totality of Reason
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