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Author(s): Laurence Barry

ISBN(s): 9783030489427, 9783030489434, 3030489426, 3030489434

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 2.86 MB

Year: 2020

Language: English

SKU: EB-22504268 Category: Reference Tags: Conceptions of Reason, Foucault and Postmodern, Laurence Barry

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ISBN 10: 3030489434
ISBN 13: 9783030489434
Author:Laurence Barry

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.

Table contents:

1. Introduction

2. Early Critiques of Modernity: The Human Sciences Between Knowledge and Discipline

3. Governmentality as a Turning Point

4. From Government to Subjectivity

5. Forms of Subjectivity: Subjection/Subjectivation?

6. The Genealogy of the Modern Subject

7. The “Return to Kant” and Autonomy

8. Foucault, Kant, and Critique

9. Concluding Remarks: Foucault and Contemporary Social Criticism

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