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Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism (Hardcover)
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Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism (Hardcover)
Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism
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Michel Foucault continues to be regarded as one of the most
essential thinkers of the twentieth century. A brilliantly
evocative writer and conceptual creator, his influence is clearly
discernible today across nearly every discipline-philosophy and
history, certainly, as well as literary and critical theory,
religious and social studies, and the arts. This volume exploits
Foucault's insistent blurring of the self-imposed limits formed by
the disciplines, with each author in this volume discovering in
Foucault's work a model useful for challenging not only these
divisions but developing a more fundamental interrogation of
modernism. Foucault himself saw the calling into question of
modernism to be the permanent task of his life's work, thereby
opening a path for rethinking the social. Understanding Foucault,
Understanding Modernism shows, on the one hand, that literature and
the arts play a fundamental structural role in Foucault's works,
while, on the other hand, it shifts to the foreground what it
presumes to be motivating Foucault: the interrogation of the
problem of modernism. To that end, even his most explicitly
historical or strictly epistemological and methodological enquiries
directly engage the problem of modernism through the works of
writers and artists from de Sade, Mallarme, Baudelaire to Artaud,
Manet, Borges, Roussel, and Bataille. This volume, therefore,
adopts a transdisciplinary approach, as a way to establish
connections between Foucault's thought and the aesthetic problems
that emerge out of those specific literary and artistic works,
methods, and styles designated "modern." The aim of this volume is
to provide a resource for students and scholars not only in the
fields of literature and philosophy, but as well those interested
in the intersections of art and intellectual history, religious
studies, and critical theory.
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