Modernity and Crisis in the Thought of Michel Foucault: The Totality of Reason

ISBN-13: 9780367873967 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 118 str.

Matan Oram

Opis

This book addresses Foucault’s characterizations of the Enlightenment, asking whether the developmental history of the modern conception of knowledge--from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment--warrants the conclusion he draws. From the perspective of a critical evaluation of Foucault's thesis on "the crisis of modernity," the book examines

Spis treści

Introduction

PART I: Rationalism and Critical Thought

1. The Beginnings of Critical Thought

2. The Limits of Rationalism

3. The Enlightenment – between the Horizon of Hope and the Anatomy of Despair

PART II: Michel Foucault and the Critical Discourse on Modernity: The Roots of Disciplinary Violence

4. Ordering

5. The Manipulative Power of Reason

6. Corrective Reason – Knowledge and Confinement

7. The Human and the Scientific: The Invention of Man

8. The Social Discourse – Criticism or Negation?

9. Phenomenological Tone of Critical Discourse

10. Parrhesia and the Changing Political Imagination

11. Conclusion: The Totality of Reason

O autorze

Matan Oram is Senior Lecturer at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel.