Michel Foucault, philosopher : essays

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Michel Foucault, philosopher : essays

translated from the French and German by Timothy J. Armstrong

Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992

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Michel Foucault, philosophe

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First published as Michel Foucault, philosophe: Paris : Seuil, 1989

First published under the direction of François Ewald

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This collection of essays on the philosophy of Foucault assesses his various work from a variety of perspectives: his place in the history of philosophy; his style and method of philosophical expression; his notions of political power; his ethical thought; and his attitude to psychoanalysis.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Michel Foucault in the history of Western philosophy: archaeology and epistemology, Roberto Machado
  • notes on phenomenology in "Words and Things", Gerard Lebrun
  • Foucault and Marx - the question of nominalism, Etienne Balibar
  • Michel Foucault and psychoanalysis, Jacques-Alain Miller
  • within philosophy or without?, Francois Wahl
  • on the ordering of things - being and power in Heidegger and Foucault, Hubert L. Dreyfus. Part 2 Style and discourse, Manfred Frank
  • on Michel Foucault's philosophical style - towards a critique of the normal way, Miguel Morey
  • the word of God - "I am dead", Denis Hollier
  • oneirocriticisms, Walter Seitter
  • towards fiction, Raymond Bellour. Part 3 Power and government: what is a "dispositif"?, Gilles Deleuze
  • a power without an exterior, Francois Ewald
  • towards a natural history of norms, Pierre Macherey
  • Michel Foucault and the police state, Blandine Barret-Kriegel
  • on Foucault's uses of the notion "bio-power", Michael Donnelly
  • Foucault and the liberal view of the free individual, Allessandro Pizzorno. Part 4 Ethics and the subject: Foucault - the ethic and the work, John Rajchman
  • reflections on the notion of "the cultivation of the self", Pierre Hadot
  • the constitution of the subject and spiritual practice, Christian Jambet
  • the aesthetic of existence - post-conventional morality and the theory of power in Michel Foucault, Rainer Rochlitz
  • beyond life and death - on Foucault's post-Auschwitz ethic, James W. Bernauer. Part 5 Rationalities and histories: rationality, force and power - Foucault and Habermas' criticisms, Dominique Janicaud
  • Foucault, the present and history, Mark Poster
  • Foucault, morality and criticism, Christian Bouchindhomme
  • moral identity and private autonomy, Richard Rorty
  • Michel Foucault's nihilism, Andre Gluckmann
  • Foucault and going beyond (or the fulfilment of) nihilism, Paul Veyne.

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  • NCID
    BA1346844X
  • ISBN
    • 0745008844
    • 0745008852
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    fre
  • Place of Publication
    Hemel Hempstead ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvi, 351 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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