Foucault and his interlocutors / edited and introduced by Arnold I. Davidson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Davidson, Arnold I. (Arnold Ira), 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Foucault, Michel.

Chomsky, Noam.

Philosophy.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 261 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [1997]

Summary:

Containing the debate between Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky on epistemology and politics, this book also features the most significant essays by the most important French thinkers who influenced and were influenced by Foucault. Foucault's teachers, colleagues, and collaborators take up his major claims, from his first to final works, and provide us with the authoritative context in which to understand Foucault's writings. This volume also includes several important works by Foucault previously unpublished in English. The other contributors are Georges Canguilhem, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Pierre Hadot, Michel Serres, and Paul Veyne. Here for the first time is the French Foucault. This volume offers lucid and important texts that will appeal to students and professors at every level of study. It is essential reading for all scholars of twentieth-century philosophy and critical theory.

Contents:

Introduction. Structures and strategies of a discourse: remarks towards a history of Foucault's philosophy of language / Arnold J. Davidson

I. Madness. Introductory remarks to Georges Canguilhem / Arnold I. Davidson; Report from Mr. Canguilhem on the manuscript filed by Mr. Michel Foucault, Director of the Institut Français of Hamburg, in order to obtain permission to print his principal thesis for the doctor of letters / Georges Canguilhem; On Histoire de la folie as an event / Georges Canguilhem; Introduction to Penser la folie: essais sur Michel Foucault / Georges Canguilhem; The geometry of the incommunicable: Madness / Michel Serres; "To do justice to Freud": the history of madness in the age of psychoanalysis / Jacques Derrida; Madness, the absence of work / Michel Foucault

II. History, Diagnostics, Power. Human nature: justice versus power / Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky; Foucault revolutionize history / Paul Veyne; Desire and pleasure / Gilles Deleuze

III. Foucault and the Ancients. Introductory remarks to Pierre Hadot / Arnold I. Davidson; Forms of life and forms of discourse in ancient philosophy / Pierre Hadot; The final Foucault and his ethics / Paul Veyne; Writing the self / Michel Foucault.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has underlines, marginal marks and page bookmarked by yellow post-it.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0226137139

0226137147

OCLC:

35986414