Critique as Critical History

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-61008-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4451 g

This book presents the first sustained articulation of a Foucauldian
œuvre
. It situates Foucault’s critique within the tradition of Kant’s call for a philosophical archaeology of reason; in parallel, it demonstrates the priority in Foucault’s thought of Nietzsche over Heidegger and the framing of reason against an ontology of power. Bregham Dalgliesh hereby claims that at the heart of the Foucauldian
œuvre
is the philosophical method of critical history. Its task is to make the will to know that drives thought conscious of itself as a problem, especially the regimes of truth that define our governmentalities. By revealing the contingency of their constituent parts of knowledge, power and ethics, Dalgliesh demonstrates that critical history offers an alternative mode of critique to the hithertofore singular reading of the intellectual heritage of enlightenment, while it fosters an agonistic concept of freedom in respect of our putatively necessary limits.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dalgliesh, Bregham

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtsphilosophie, Philosophie der Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Critique and the subject of knowledge.- 3. Critique and the subject of right.- 4. Archaeology and knowledge.- 5. Genealogy and power.- 6. Critical history and ethics.- 7. Critique as critical history.

Über Autor(innen)

Bregham Dalgliesh is associate professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He previously taught in Canada, the U.K. and France, where he remains an associate researcher of LASCO (
Laboratoire Sens et Compréhension du monde contemporain
) at the Institut Mines-Télécom. He has published widely across disciplines, with the task of philosophical critique taken up through an engagement with the multifarious effects of technoscience on the human condition.