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Michel Foucault - Genealogy as Critique (Paperback)
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Michel Foucault - Genealogy as Critique (Paperback)
Series: Phronesis
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Loot Price R480
Discovery Miles 4 800
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The reception of Michel Foucault's work has often been divided
between two unsatisfactory alternatives. On the one had there are
those who admire the detail of his concrete analysis, but wonder
how the political and ethical commitments they seem to rely on can
be justified. On the other, there are those who deny the need for
normative foundations, but also find it difficult to explain what
makes Foucault's archaeologies and genealogies critical. Rudi
Visker's book is not only a lucid and elegant survey of Foucault's
corpus, from his early work on madness to the History of Sexuality,
but also a major intervention in this debate. Reading Foucault
against the Heideggarian backdrop to his work, Visker shows that
Foucault's target is not order as such, but rather the production
of ordering systems which cannot acknowledge their own conditions
of possibility. Exploring along the way such intriguing issues as
the ambivalence of Foucault's concepts of truth and power, and his
philosophically provocative use of quotation marks, Visker portrays
Foucault as neither relativist nor positivist, neither activist nor
detached observer. Instead, Foucault emerges as the inventor of a
new analysis of our modern mechanisms of control and exclusion:
precisely of 'genealogy as critique'.
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