Foucault's critical project : between the transcendental and the historical / Béatrice Han ; translated by Edward Pile.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Han, Béatrice.

Series:

Atopia (Stanford, Calif.)

Atopia

Standardized Title:

Ontologie manquée de Michel Foucault. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Foucault, Michel.

Truth--History--20th century.

Truth.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 241 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

This book uncovers and explores the constant tension between the historical and the transcendental that lies at the heart of Michel Foucault' s work. In the process, it also addresses the philosophical foundations of his thought by examining his theoretical borrowings from Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, who each provided him with tools to critically rethink the status of the transcendental.

Contents:

Part I. The Archaeological Transposition of the Critical Question and the Aporiae of the Transcendental Theme

1. The Critique and the Anthropology: The Two Versions of the Transcendental Theme According to Foucault 17

2. The Different Meanings of the Historical a Priori and the Transcendental Theme: The Methodological Failure of Archaeology 38

Part II. The Reopening of the Critical Question: Genealogical Solutions and Difficulties

3. The Reformulation of the Archaeological Problem and the Genealogical Turn 73

4. The Genealogical Analysis of the Human Sciences and Its Consequences for the Revising of the Critical Question 108

Part III. Truth and Subjectivation: the Retrospective Stakes of the Critical Question

5. Truth and the Constitution of the Self 152

6. The "History of Subjectivity" and Its Internal Tensions 174.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-234) and index.

ISBN:

0804737088

0804737096

OCLC:

49320366