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Modernity and Crisis in the Thought of Michel Foucault The Totality of Reason

By Matan Oram Copyright 2017

132 Pages

by Routledge

132 Pages

by Routledge

132 Pages

by Routledge

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Description

Few studies of Foucault have examined his thought from a sustained interdisciplinary perspective. Through the interpretative prism of the concept of the ‘Totality of Reason’, this book suggests an original analytical reading of Foucault's thought. This book addresses Foucault’s characterizations of the Enlightenment, asking whether the developmental history of the modern conception of... Read more

Table of Contents

Introduction

PART I: Rationalism and Critical Thought

1. The Beginnings of Critical Thought

2. The Limits of Rationalism

3. The Enlightenment – between the Horizon of Hope and the Anatomy of Despair

PART II: Michel Foucault and the Critical Discourse on Modernity: The Roots of Disciplinary Violence

4. Ordering

5. The Manipulative Power of Reason

6. Corrective Reason – Knowledge and Confinement

7. The Human and the Scientific: The Invention of Man

8. The Social Discourse – Criticism or Negation?

9. Phenomenological Tone of Critical Discourse

10. Parrhesia and the Changing Political Imagination

11. Conclusion: The Totality of Reason

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Biography

Matan Oram is Senior Lecturer at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel.

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