Foucault and Postmodern Conceptions of Reason
Foucault and Postmodern Conceptions of Reason

Author: Laurence Barry

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-07-14

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 3030489434

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​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.

Postmodern Theory
Postmodern Theory

Author: Steven Best

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1991-11-15

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1349217182

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An introduction to and critique of the latest trends in critical theory.

Women in the United States, 1830-1945
Women in the United States, 1830-1945

Author: S. J. Kleinberg

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13: 9780813527291

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Throughout American history, women's roles have been a source of controversy. Despite having to struggle to be heard or listened to, women vigorously participated in the political debates and cultural lives of American society. They responded actively to the social problems of their day, joining anti-slavery and temperance groups in the nineteenth century, only to discover that gender hindered their right to speak or act in public. Such limitations led to the women's rights movement and a long struggle for the vote and full citizenship rights.

The Postmodern Condition
The Postmodern Condition

Author: Jean-François Lyotard

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9780816611737

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In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.

Postmodern Philosophy and Law
Postmodern Philosophy and Law

Author: Douglas E. Litowitz

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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The author presents a two-tiered analysis that views postmodern legal thought as both a collective intellectual movement, and as the work of particular theorists, notably Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Francois Lyotard, and Richard Rorty. He concludes that even though postmodern thought does not give rise to a normative theory of right that can be used as a framework for deciding cases, it can focus attention on genealogy and discourse, and can empower those who have been denied a voice in the legal system. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Birth of the Clinic
The Birth of the Clinic

Author: Michel Foucault

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11-01

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1134955391

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Foucault's classic study of the history of medicine.

Foucault on Freedom
Foucault on Freedom

Author: Johanna Oksala

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-06-16

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780521847797

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Oksala identifies the different interpretations of freedom in Foucault's philosophy and examines its three major divisions.

Foucault and Derrida
Foucault and Derrida

Author: Roy Boyne

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1136161023

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The writings of Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida pose a serious challenge to the old established, but now seriously compromised forms of thought. In this compelling book, Roy Boyne explains the very significant advances for which they have been responsible, their general importance for the human sciences, and the forms of hope that they offer for an age often characterized by scepticism, cynicism and reaction. The focus of the book is the dispute between Foucault and Derrida on the nature of reason, madness and 'otherness'. The range of issues covered includes the birth of the prison, problems of textual interpretation, the nature of the self and contemporary movements such as socialism, feminism and anti-racialism. Roy Boyne argues that whilst the two thinkers chose very different paths, they were in fact rather surprisingly to converge upon the common ground of power and ethics. Despite the evident honesty, importance and adventurousness of the work of Foucault and Derrida, many also find it difficult and opaque. Roy Boyne has performed a major service for students of their writings in this compelling and accessible book.

The Critical Turn
The Critical Turn

Author: Ian H. Angus

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780809318445

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Concerned with criticizing representational theories of knowledge by developing alternative concepts of knowing and communicating, Ian Angus and Lenore Langsdorf bring together eight essays that are united by a common theme: the convergence of philosophy and rhetoric. In the first chapter, Angus and Langsdorf illustrate the centrality of critical reasoning to the nature of questioning itself, arguing that human inquiry has entered a "new situation" where "the convictions and orientations that have traditionally marked the separation of rhetoric and philosophy--the concern for truth and the focus on persuasion--have begun to converge on a new space that can be defined through the central term discourse."In these essays, this convergence of rhetoric and philosophy is addressed as it presents itself to a variety of interests that transcend the traditional boundaries of these fields. The two editors, Raymie E. McKerrow, Michael J. Hyde and Craig R. Smith, James W. Hikins and Kenneth S. Zagacki, Calvin O. Schrag and David James Miller, and Richard L. Lanigan map this new space, recognizing that such mapping "simultaneously constitutes the territory mapped."