Kant, Foucault, and Forms of Experience

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-415-95624-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 358 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Reihe: Studies in Philosophy

This study presents the theoretical apparatus of Foucault’s early historical analyses as a version of Kantian criticism. In an initial textual exposition, the author attempts to distill a unified discursive practice from Kant’s theoretical writings, arguing for Foucault’s proximity to Kant on the basis of this reconstruction, by showing that his studies are modeled on this way of thinking. By recasting it in this framework, an unorthodox version of Foucault’s work is generated, one that is at odds with the tendency to emphasize a certain skepticism about the possibility of universal and necessary knowledge in his writings, and to mistake it for irrationalism and a hostility to the practice of theory. By drawing attention to the structural parallel between Foucault’s practice and Kantian criticism, this study belies this picture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Djaballah, Marc

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Foucault’s Kantian Enigma

Chapter One: A Standpoint in Kant’s Critical Philosophy

Chapter Two: Nietzsche and the Critical Need to Wake Up

Chapter Three: The Aim of Criticism in Foucault

Chapter Four: Practices as Forms of Experience

Chapter Five: Literature as a Formal Resource

Conclusion: Contestation and Creating Beings of Thought

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marc Djaballah (PhD, University of Chicago) is Professeur de philosophie continentale at Université de Québec à Montréal. He has also taught at Acadia University, Faculté de théologie in Montréal, and at the University of Memphis, where he was Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy in 2005-6.