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Foucault's Critical Project: Between the Transcendental and the Historical

Door Béatrice Han

Categorie
Filosofie
Boeknummer
#358801-ZE9
Titel
Foucault's Critical Project: Between the Transcendental and the Historical
Auteur
Han, Béatrice
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Stanford University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2002
ISBN10
0804737096
ISBN13
9780804737098
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting

This book uncovers and explores the constant tension between the historical and the transcendental that lies at the heart of Michel Foucault's work. In the process, it also assesses the philosophical foundations of his thought by examining his theoretical borrowings from Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, who each provided him with tools to critically rethink the status of the transcendental. Given Foucault's constant focus on the (Kantian) question of the possibility for knowledge, the author argues that his philosophical itinerary can be understood as a series of attempts to historicize the transcendental. In so doing, he seeks to uncover a specific level that would identify these conditions without falling either into an excess of idealism (a de-historicized, subject-centered perspective
... (Lees verder) exemplified for Foucault by Husserlian phenomenology) or of materialism (which would amount to interpreting these conditions as ideological and thus as the effect of economic determination by the infrastructure). The author concludes that, although this problem does unify Foucault's work and gives it its specifically philosophical dimension, none of the concepts successively provided (such as the episteme, the historical a priori, the regimes of truth, the games of truth, and problematizations) manages to name these conditions without falling into the pitfalls that Foucault originally denounced as characteristic of the anthropological sleep -various forms of confusion between the historical and the transcendental. Although Foucault's work provides us with a highly illuminating analysis of the major problems of post-Kantian philosophies, ultimately it remains aporetic in that it also fails to overcome them.
Pagina's
241
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 40,00

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