Foucault

by Robert Nola (Editor)

Overview

Five eminent critics explore the validity of Foucault's ideas on such questions as the fit between power and knowledge and the tension between historicist and universalist claims.The very possibility of a critical stance is a recurring theme in all of Foucault's works, and the contributors vary in the ways that they relate to his key views on truth and reason in relation to power and government.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135231774
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/05/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	168
File size:	376 KB

About the Author

Robert Nola

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Foucault as Historian, Keith Windschuttle; Chapter 2 Foucault’s Problematic, Joseph Margolis; Chapter 3 Knowledge and Political Reason, Barry Hindess; Chapter 4 Foucault and the Possibility of Historical Transcendence, Wicks Robert; Chapter 5 Knowledge, Discourse, Power and Genealogy in Foucault, Robert Nola;

Editorial Reviews

The five essays collected in this book range over all of Michel Foucault's (1926-1984) work, but their main critical focus is upon objectivity, power, and knowledge. The very possibility of a critical stance is a recurring theme in all of Foucault's works, and the contributors vary in the ways that they relate to his key views on truth and reason in relation to power and government. The papers first appeared in a special issue of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (Summer 1998). Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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