Foucault - Couverture souple

Merquior, J.G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0006862268 ISBN 13 : 9780006862260

Editeur : Fontana Press, 1997

Synopsis

Encompassing all of Foucault's published work, this book provides an array of secondary literature about Foucault including his philosophical history, his debts to other thinkers, and his complex relationship to French structuralism. This book raises important queries as to the ultimate value and legitimacy of his variety of philosophical rhetoric, with its attendant view of the role of the modern intellectual.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

By attempting a highly original merger of philosophy and history, Michel Foucault set out to revitalize philosophical reflection through several provocative analyses of the Western past. At the time of his death in June 1984, Michel Foucault had become widely known as ?the new Sartre'. By attempting a highly original and daring merger of philosophy and history, he had set out to revitalize Western philosophy with bold, provocative theses on our concepts of madness, the assumtion of science and language, our attitudes to punishment and discipline, and our ideas about sexuality. Finally, he presented new perspectives on the phenomenon of power and its relationship with knowledge. J. G. Merquior's is an uninhibited critical assessment of Foucault as ?a historian of the present'. Encompassing all his published work and a comprehensive array of secondary literature about Foucault, it appraises his philosophical background and his debts to previous thinkers such as Bachelard and Kuhn, and sketches his complex relationship to Fre

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fontana Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0006862268
• ISBN 13: 9780006862260
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible