Matan Oram

Modernity and Crisis in the Thought of Michel Foucault (eBook, PDF)

The Totality of Reason

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317284536
• Artikelnr.: 45434202

Autorenporträt

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