Understanding Foucault, understanding modernism / edited by David Scott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scott, David (David Michael Ryan Davis), editor.

Series:

Understanding philosophy, understanding modernism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Foucault, Michel.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

xi, 265 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2017.

Summary:

Michel Foucault remains to this day a thinker who stands unchallenged as one of the most important of the 20th century. Among the characteristics that have made him influential is his insistent blurring of the border separating philosophy and literature and art, carried out on the basis of his confronting the problem of modernism, which he characterizes as a permanent task. To that end, even his most explicitly historical or strictly epistemological and methodological enquiries, which on their surface would seem not to have anything to do with literature, are full of allusions to modernist writers and artists like Mallarme, Baudelaire, Artaud, Klee, Borges, Broch-sometimes fleetingly, sometimes more extensively, as is the case with Foucault's life-long devotion to Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot, and de Sade. Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism shows, on the one hand, that literature and the arts play a fundamental structural role in Foucault's works, while, on the other hand, it shifts to the foreground what it presumes to be motivating Foucault: the interrogation of the problem of modernism.

Contents:

Introduction : Foucault's modernisms / David Scott, Coppin State University, USA

Part 1. Conceptualizing Foucault. The origin of parresia in Foucault's thinking : truth and freedom in the history of madness / Leonard Lawlor and Daniel J. Palumbo, Penn State University, USA

The secret of the corpse-language machine : the birth of the clinic and Raymond Roussel / David Scott, Coppin State University, USA

Intersections of the concept and literature in the order of things : Foucault and Canguilhem / Samuel Talcott, University of the Sciences, USA

Archeology of knowledge : Foucault and the time of discourse / Heath Massey, Beloit University, USA

Carceral, capital, power : the 'dark side' of the Enlightenment in discipline and punish / Christopher Penfield, Purdue University, USA

Foucault's history of sexuality / Chlöe Taylor, University of Alberta, Canada

Part 2. Foucault and Aesthetics. Technologies of modernism : historicism in Foucault and Dos Passos / Christopher Breu, Illinois State University, USA

Thought as spirituality in Raymond Roussel / Ann Burlein, Hofstra University, USA

Life escaping : Foucault, vitalism, and Gertrude Stein's life-writing / Sarah Posman, Ghent University, Belgium

The specter of Manet : a contribution to the archaeology of painting / Joseph Tanke, University of Hawaii, USA

The hermaphroditic image : modern art, thought and expérience in Michel Foucault / Nicole Ridgway, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

Part 3. Glossary. Archaeology / Heath Massey, Beloit College, USA

The "author-function" / Seth Forrest, Coppin State University, USA

Biopower / Chlöe Taylor, University of Alberta, Canada

Discipline / Steve Tammelleo, University of San Diego, USA

Episteme / Samuel Talcott, University of the Sciences, USA

Genealogy / Brad Elliot Stone, Loyola Marymount University, USA

Power / Brad Elliot Stone, Loyola Marymount University, USA

Problematization / Daniele Lorenzini, University Paris-Est Créteil, France

Transgression / Janae Scholtz, Alvernia University, USA

Truth / Marc De Kesel, Saint Paul University, Canada

Subjectivation / Mark Murphy, University of Glasgow, UK.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Understanding Foucault, understanding modernism.

ISBN:

9781628927702

1628927704

OCLC:

956947388