The Cambridge companion to Foucault

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Author:

Gutting, Gary.

ISBN:

9780521840828

9780521600538

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication Information:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2005.

Physical Description:

xix, 465 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Cambridge companions to philosophy

Series Title:

Cambridge companions to philosophy

Contents:

Introduction : Michel Foucault : a user's manual / Gary Gutting -- 1. Foucault's mapping of history / Thomas Flynn -- 2. Foucault and the history of madness / Gary Gutting -- 3. The death of man, or exhaustion of the cogito? / Georges Canguilhem -- 4. Power/knowledge / Joseph Rouse -- 5. Ethics as ascetics : Foucault, the history of ethics, and ancient thought / Arnold I. Davidson -- 6. Michel Foucault's ethical imagination / James W. Bernauer and Michael Mahon -- 7. The analytic of finitude and the history of subjectivity / Beatrice Han -- 8. Foucault's encounter with Heidegger and Nietzsche / Hans Sluga -- 9. Foucault and Habermas / David Ingram -- 10. Foucault's relation to phenomenology / Todd May -- 11. Against interiority : Foucault's struggle with psychoanalysis / Joel Whitebook -- 12. Foucault's modernism / Gerald L. Bruns -- 13. Queering Foucault and the subject of feminism / Jana Sawicki.

Abstract:

"The essays in this volume provide a systematic and comprehensive overview of Foucault's major themes and texts, from his early work on madness through his history of sexuality. Special attention is also paid to thinkers and movements, from Kant through current feminist theory, that are particularly important for understanding his work and its impact. This revised edition contains five new essays and revisions of many others. The extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources has been updated."--BOOK JACKET.

Personal Subject:

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Subject Term:

Philosophy, French -- 20th century.

Philosophers -- France -- 20th century.

Added Author:

Gutting, Gary.

Added Title:

Foucault.

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For Michel Foucault, philosophy was a way of questioning the allegedly necessary truths that underpin the practices and institutions of modern society. He carried this out in a series of deeply original and strikingly controversial studies on the origins of modern medical and social scientific disciplines. These studies have raised fundamental questions about the nature of human knowledge and its relation to power structures, and have become major topics of discussion throughout the humanities and social sciences. The essays in this volume provide a comprehensive overview of Foucault's major themes and texts, from his early work on madness through his history of sexuality. Special attention is also paid to thinkers and movements, from Kant through current feminist theory, that are particularly important for understanding his work and its impact. This revised edition contains five new essays and revisions of many others, and the extensive bibliography has been updated.