Genealogy as critique : Foucault and the problems of modernity / Colin Koopman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koopman, Colin.

Series:

American Philosophy

American philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genealogy (Philosophy).

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Foucault, Michel.

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 gene

Contents:

What genealogy does

Critical historiography: politics, philosophy & problematization

Three uses of genealogy: subversion, vindication & problematization

What problematization is: contingency, complexity & critique

What problematization does: aims, sources & implications

Foucault's problematization of modernity: the reciprocal incompatibility of discipline and liberation

Foucault's reconstruction of modern moralities: an ethics of self-transformation

Problematization plus reconstruction: genealogy, pragmatism & critical theory.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253006233

0253006236

9781283949606

1283949601

OCLC:

826858870