Genealogy as critique : Foucault and the problems of modernity /

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Viewing Foucault in the light of work by Continental and American philosophers, most notably Nietzsche, Habermas, Deleuze, Richard Rorty, Bernard Williams, and Ian Hacking, this book shows that philosophical genealogy involves not only the critique of modernity but also its transformation. The autho...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Koopman, Colin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]
Series:American philosophy.
Subjects:
Foucault, Michel, > 1926-1984.
Kant, Immanuel, > 1724-1804.
Foucault, Michel, > 1926-1984
Kant, Immanuel, > 1724-1804
Genealogy (Philosophy)
Généalogie (Philosophie)
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Pragmatism.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : What genealogy does
  • Critical historiography : politics, philosophy & problematization
  • Three uses of genealogy : subversion, vindication & problematization
  • What problematization is : contingency, complexity & critique
  • What problematization does : aims, sources & implications
  • Foucault's problematization of modernity : the reciprocal incompatibility of discipline and liberation
  • Foucault's reconstruction of modern moralities : an ethics of self-transformation
  • Problematization plus reconstruction : genealogy, pragmatism & critical theory.

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