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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
0253006198, 978-0-253-00619-6, 978-0-253-00623-3, 0253006236, 978-0-253-00621-9
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
683 kB (698892 bytes)
Series
American Philosophy
Pages
348\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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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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