1st Edition
Critical And Effective Histories Foucault's Methods and Historical Sociology
By Mitchell Dean
Copyright 1994
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 2004. This work places Foucault's methodologies against social theory and philosophy in order to provide a guide to social sciences, particularly historical sociology. Written to clarify Foucault's contribution for professional and non-professional readers, the text demonstrates the originality and usefulness of Foucault's work and embodies a conviction that Foucault's... Read more
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Sociology, Foucault, and the uses of history 2. Presentist perspectives Excursus: Foucault and Annales 3. Questions of enlightenment 4. Weber, rationality, and the subject 5. A 'specific and peculiar rationalism'? Beyond the rationalisation thesis 6. Absent history and enlightenment dialectics Postscript: the problem with critique 7. Habermas modernist translations 8. Thematics of state and power Excursus: Time, space, and power 9. Governmentality 10. ....and practices of the self Conclusion
Biography
Mitchell Dean
'... a thoughtful critique of sociology, history and philosophy which thankfully avoids the more obvious and repetitive lines of Foucauldian commentary.' - Radical Philosophy
