Understanding Foucault, understanding modernism / edited by David Scott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

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

Series:

Understanding philosophy, understanding modernism.

Understanding philosophy, understanding modernism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Foucault, Michel.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Summary:

"Michel Foucault continues to be regarded as one of the most essential thinkers of the twentieth century. A brilliantly evocative writer and conceptual creator, his influence is clearly discernible today across nearly every discipline--philosophy and history, certainly, as well as literary and critical theory, religious and social studies, and the arts. This volume exploits Foucault's insistent blurring of the self-imposed limits formed by the disciplines, with each author in this volume discovering in Foucault's work a model useful for challenging not only these divisions but developing a more fundamental interrogation of modernism. Foucault himself saw the calling into question of modernism to be the permanent task of his life's work, thereby opening a path for rethinking the social. 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. To that end, even his most explicitly historical or strictly epistemological and methodological enquiries directly engage the problem of modernism through the works of writers and artists from de Sade, Mallarm , Baudelaire to Artaud, Manet, Borges, Roussel, and Bataille. This volume, therefore, adopts a transdisciplinary approach, as a way to establish connections between Foucault's thought and the aesthetic problems that emerge out of those specific literary and artistic works, methods, and styles designated "modern." The aim of this volume is to provide a resource for students and scholars not only in the fields of literature and philosophy, but as well those interested in the intersections of art and intellectual history, religious studies, and critical theory."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Series Preface

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Foucault's Modernisms / David Scott

Part 1. Conceptualizing Foucault 1. The Origin of Parresia in Foucault's Thinking: Truth and Freedom in The History of Madness / Leonard Lawlor and Daniel J. Palumbo ; 2. The Secret of the Corpse-Language Machine: The Birth of the Clinic and Raymond / Roussel David Scott ; 3. Intersections of the Concept and Literature in TheOrder of Things: Foucault and Canguilhem / Samuel Talcott ; 4. ArcArcheology of Knowledge: Foucault and the Time of Discourse / Heath Massey ; 5. Carceral, Capital, Power: The 'Dark Side' of the Enlightenment in Discipline and Punish / Christopher Penfield ; 6. Foucault's History of Sexuality / Chloë Taylor

Part 2. Foucault and Aesthetics. 7. Technologies of Modernism: Historicism in Foucault and Dos Passos / Christopher Breu ; 8. Thought as Spirituality in Raymond Roussel / Ann Burlein ; 9. Life Escaping: Foucault, Vitalism, and Gertrude Stein's Life-Writing / Sarah Posman ; 10. The Specter of Manet: A Contribution to the Archaeology of Painting / Joseph Tanke ; 11. The Hermaphroditic Image: Modern Art, Thought and Exp rience in Michel Foucault / Nicole Ridgway

Part 3. Glossary. Archaeology / Heath Massey ; The "Author-Function" / Seth Forrest ; Biopower / Chloë Taylor ; Discipline / Steve Tammelleo ; Episteme / Samuel Talcott ; Genealogy / Brad Elliot Stone ; Power / Brad Elliot Stone ; Problematization / Daniele Lorenzini ; Transgression / Janae Scholtz ; Truth / Marc De Kesel ; Subjectivation / Mark Murphy

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781501323621

1501323628

9781628927726

1628927720

9781628927719

1628927712

OCLC:

956984958