[PDF] Foucault And Postmodern Conceptions Of Reason eBook

Author : Laurence Barry
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3030489434

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​For decades Foucault was mostly known for his diagnosis of modernity as a form of entrapment, both in our modes of thought and our behaviors. This book argues that Foucault's reappraisal of modernity occurs with the 1978 and 1979 lectures, in which he sketches modern power as governmentality and neoliberalism. From this perspective, Foucault’s once surprising studies on the Greeks' constitution of the ‘self’ can be seen as a continuation of his diagnosis of late modernity, and as an attempt to retrieve a form of autonomy for our modern selves. One finds in the late Foucault a postmodern conception of reason and not a destruction of reason; but this is possible only if postmodernity is seen as a critical exercise of reason in the analysis of norms.

Author : Steven Best
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,59 MB
Release : 1991-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1349217182

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An introduction to and critique of the latest trends in critical theory.

Author : S. J. Kleinberg
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 39,95 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813527291

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Throughout American history, women's roles have been a source of controversy. Despite having to struggle to be heard or listened to, women vigorously participated in the political debates and cultural lives of American society. They responded actively to the social problems of their day, joining anti-slavery and temperance groups in the nineteenth century, only to discover that gender hindered their right to speak or act in public. Such limitations led to the women's rights movement and a long struggle for the vote and full citizenship rights.

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 22,90 MB
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134955391

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Foucault's classic study of the history of medicine.

Author : Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 24,34 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780816611737

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In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.

Author : Douglas E. Litowitz
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 24,3 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Law
ISBN :

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The author presents a two-tiered analysis that views postmodern legal thought as both a collective intellectual movement, and as the work of particular theorists, notably Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Francois Lyotard, and Richard Rorty. He concludes that even though postmodern thought does not give rise to a normative theory of right that can be used as a framework for deciding cases, it can focus attention on genealogy and discourse, and can empower those who have been denied a voice in the legal system. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Johanna Oksala
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 30,99 MB
Release : 2005-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521847797

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Oksala identifies the different interpretations of freedom in Foucault's philosophy and examines its three major divisions.

Author : Roy Boyne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136161023

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The writings of Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida pose a serious challenge to the old established, but now seriously compromised forms of thought. In this compelling book, Roy Boyne explains the very significant advances for which they have been responsible, their general importance for the human sciences, and the forms of hope that they offer for an age often characterized by scepticism, cynicism and reaction. The focus of the book is the dispute between Foucault and Derrida on the nature of reason, madness and 'otherness'. The range of issues covered includes the birth of the prison, problems of textual interpretation, the nature of the self and contemporary movements such as socialism, feminism and anti-racialism. Roy Boyne argues that whilst the two thinkers chose very different paths, they were in fact rather surprisingly to converge upon the common ground of power and ethics. Despite the evident honesty, importance and adventurousness of the work of Foucault and Derrida, many also find it difficult and opaque. Roy Boyne has performed a major service for students of their writings in this compelling and accessible book.

Author : Ian H. Angus
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 28,48 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780809318445

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Concerned with criticizing representational theories of knowledge by developing alternative concepts of knowing and communicating, Ian Angus and Lenore Langsdorf bring together eight essays that are united by a common theme: the convergence of philosophy and rhetoric. In the first chapter, Angus and Langsdorf illustrate the centrality of critical reasoning to the nature of questioning itself, arguing that human inquiry has entered a "new situation" where "the convictions and orientations that have traditionally marked the separation of rhetoric and philosophy--the concern for truth and the focus on persuasion--have begun to converge on a new space that can be defined through the central term discourse."In these essays, this convergence of rhetoric and philosophy is addressed as it presents itself to a variety of interests that transcend the traditional boundaries of these fields. The two editors, Raymie E. McKerrow, Michael J. Hyde and Craig R. Smith, James W. Hikins and Kenneth S. Zagacki, Calvin O. Schrag and David James Miller, and Richard L. Lanigan map this new space, recognizing that such mapping "simultaneously constitutes the territory mapped."