Being up-to-date : Foucault, Sartre, and postmodernity / Neil Levy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levy, Neil, 1967-

Series:

Studies in European thought 1043-5786 ; vol. 20.

Studies in European thought, 1043-5786 ; vol. 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

xii, 207 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : P. Lang, [2000]

Contents:

1. Post Script 1

The Problem of Postmodernism 2

Postmodern Thought: Jacques Derrida 4

Jean-Francois Lyotard 6

Fredric Jameson 7

Modernity versus Postmodernity 9

2. The Nineteenth-Century Man Versus The Magic Lantern 17

An Unacceptable Comparison 24

Remarks on Methodology 25

3. Heidegger And The Postmodern 27

Foucault's Debt to Heidegger 28

The Problems of Modernity: Heidegger's Diagnosis 33

Foucault as 'Young Heideggerian' 34

Being and the Self: Parallel Confusions 37

Representing the Unrepresentable 38

Foucault's Mad Thought 40

4. Modernity

The Dead-End Of Philosophy? 45

Past the Modern Impasse 47

The Existential Exit 48

The Heideggerian Overcoming 49

The Origin of the Problem 50

5. Beyond The Doubles 57

Overcoming Relevance 64

A Third Way? 65

No Exit 67

6. The Gaze 75

Pinned by a Look 82

A Foucauldian Existentialism? 84

Reversing the Gaze 86

This Millenial Yoke of Confession 89

Trapped in Truth 94

7. A Daily Labor, Long And Disappointing 97

Freedom and the Possibility of Choosing Otherwise 98

Inside the Magic Lantern 102

8. Accepting The World 107

Foucault and the Possibility of Critique 111

The Truth of the Subject/The Subject of Truth 117

Ascesis: the Self as Aesthetic Object 119

9. Excursus: Intersubjectivity 123

10. On Not Being Up To Date: Les Temps (Post)Modernes 131

11. The Ethical Problem 139

The Rules of the Game 141

Towards an Ethics of the Future Perfect 144

The Ethics of Thought 152

12. Postmodern, Posthumanist, Post-Sartre 155

What Will Postmodernism Have Been? 158.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-207).

ISBN:

0820451185

OCLC:

50381061