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Foucault and Postmodern Conceptions of Reason - Couverture rigide

Barry, Laurence

 
9783030489427: Foucault and Postmodern Conceptions of Reason
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 3030489426 ISBN 13 : 9783030489427
Editeur : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2020

Synopsis

​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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Laurence Barry is an associate lecturer at the Hebrew University and a trained actuary. She currently researches the implications of big data for insurance as a practice of neoliberal governmentality at Chaire PARI (ENSAE/Sciences Po), France.


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Éditeur
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3030489426
ISBN 13 
9783030489427
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
242
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