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Maturity and Modernity Nietzsche, Weber, Foucault and the Ambivalence of Reason
By David Owen
Copyright 1994
272 Pages
by
Routledge
268 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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Maturity and Modernity is the first book to analyze Nietzsche, Weber and Foucault as a tradition of theorising and to chart the development of genealogy as a mode of critique. It provides clear accounts of the main ideas of Nietzsche, Weber and Foucault (as well as a useful Glossary) and illustrates the relations between these thinkers at methodological, substantive and politcal levels.
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Kant and the Question of Maturity; Chapter 3 The Transformation of Critique; Chapter 4 The Genealogy of Modernity; Chapter 5 The Politics of the Übermensch; Chapter 6 Genealogy as Cultural Science; Chapter 7 The Genealogy of Modernity; Chapter 8 The Politics of 'Personality'; Chapter 9 Genealogy as Historical Ontology; Chapter 10 The Genealogy of Modernity; Chapter 11 The Politics of Critique; Chapter 12 Conclusion;
Biography
David Owen
