1st Edition

Michel Foucault Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics

By Hubert L. Dreyfus, Paul Rabinow Copyright 1982
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 1984. This book was born out of a disagreement among friends. Paul Rabinow, attending a seminar given in 1979 by Hubert Dreyfus and John Searle which concerned, among other things, Michel Foucault, objected to the characterization of Foucault as a typical structuralist. This challenge stirred a discussion that led to the proposal of a joint article which soon became a... Read more
Part I The Illusion of Autonomous Discourse; Chapter 1 Practices and Discourse in Foucault’s Early Writings; Chapter 2 The Archaeology of the Human Sciences; Chapter 3 Towards a Theory of Discursive Practice; Chapter 4 The Methodological Failure of Archaeology; Part II The Genealogy of the Modern Individual: The Interpretive Analytics of Power, Truth, and the Body; Chapter 5 Interpretive Analytics; Chapter 6 From the Repressive Hypothesis to Bio-Power; Chapter 7 The Genealogy of the Modern Individual as Object; Chapter 8 The Genealogy of the Modern Individual as Subject; Chapter 9 Power and Truth; conclusion Conclusion; afterword Afterword, Michel Foucault;

Biography

Hubert L. Dreyfus is Professor of Philosophy in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley.

Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.