Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason, Volume Two : A Poststructuralist Mapping of History / Thomas R. Flynn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flynn, Thomas R., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984--Contributions in philosophy of history.

History--Philosophy.

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Foucault, Michel.

Local Subjects:

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984--Contributions in philosophy of history.

History--Philosophy.

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2010]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Sartre and Foucault were two of the most prominent and at times mutually antagonistic philosophical figures of the twentieth century. And nowhere are the antithetical natures of their existentialist and poststructuralist philosophies more apparent than in their disparate approaches to historical understanding. In Volume One of this authoritative two-volume study, Thomas R. Flynn conducted a pivotal and comprehensive reconstruction of Sartrean historical theory. This long-awaited second volume offers a comprehensive and critical reading of the Foucauldian counterpoint. A history, theorized Foucault, should be a kind of map, a comprehensive charting of structural transformations and displacements over time. Contrary to other Foucault scholars, Flynn proposes an "axial" rather than a developmental reading of Foucault's work. This allows aspects of Foucault's famous triad of knowledge, power, and the subject to emerge in each of his major works. Flynn maps existentialist categories across Foucault's "quadrilateral," the model that Foucault proposes as defining modernist conceptions of knowledge. At stake is the degree to which Sartre's thought is fully captured by this mapping, whether he was, as Foucault claimed, "a man of the nineteenth century trying to think in the twentieth."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Works Frequently Cited

1. Foucault and the Historians

2. Foucault and Historical Nominalism

3. The Career of the Historical Event

4. The Eclipse of Vision?

5. The Spaces of History99

6. The Philosopher-Historian as Cartographer

7. Pyramids and Prisms: Reading Foucault in 3-D

8. Mapping Existentialist History

9. Experience and the Lived

10. Sartre on Violence, Foucault on Power: A Diagnostic

11. Foucault as Parrhesiast: His Last Course at the Collège de France (An Object Lesson in Axial History)

12. Ethics and History: Authentic vs. Effective History

Conclusion: The Map and the Diary

Glossary

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612504181

9781282504189

1282504185

9780226254722

0226254720

OCLC:

609855193