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Genealogy as Critique: Foucault and the Problems of Modernity

By Colin Koopman

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
025300621X, 9780253006219
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3330067 bytes)
Series
American Philosophy
Pages
368\364
Time added
2013-11-29 04:02:41

Description

Viewing Foucault in the light of work by Continental and American philosophers, most notably Nietzsche, Habermas, Deleuze, Richard Rorty, Bernard Williams, and Ian Hacking, Genealogy as Critique shows that philosophical genealogy involves not only the critique of modernity but also its transformation. Colin Koopman engages genealogy as a philosophical tradition and a method for understanding the complex histories of our present social and cultural conditions. He explains how our understanding of Foucault can benefit from productive dialogue with philosophical allies to push Foucaultian genealogy a step further and elaborate a means of addressing our most intractable contemporary problems.

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