Problems of style : Michel Foucault's epistemology / Walter Privitera ; translated by Jean Keller. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Privitera, Walter, 1954-

Series:

SUNY series in social and political thought

Standardized Title:

Stilprobleme. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Foucault, Michel.

Bachelard, Gaston, 1884-1962.

Bachelard, Gaston.

Knowledge, Theory of--History--20th century.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 168 p. )

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1995.

Contents:

1. Bachelard's Historical Epistemology. Scientific Progress and Traditional Epistemology. Constructions. Interregional Rationalism and Discontinuity. The Epistemological Obstacle. Bachelard's Philosophy

2. Foucault: The Early Writings and the Structuralist Period. Dream Analysis. The Dream, Madness, and the Critique of Psychology. The Critique of the Human Sciences. Anti-Science

3. The Archaeology. The Disintegration of Immediacy. Statement, Discourse, Rules of Formation. The Semiologization of the Imaginary. The Neutralization of the Validity Problematic

4. The Theory of Power. The Dualism within Power. Descent and Emergence: The Dualism within Genealogy. The Will to Knowledge and Traditional Epistemology. Power and Life-Practice. The Creative A Priori

5. An Overview. The Struggle for Objectification. New Subjects of Struggles. Hidden Normativity. Foucault's "Applied Rationalism" A Technology of Liberation? The Aesthetics of Existence

6. Concluding Remarks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-158) and index.

ISBN:

1-4384-1649-0

0-585-05618-8