Genealogy As Critique - Foucault and the Problems of Modernity

Informationen zum Autor Colin Koopman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon and author of Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty . Klappentext Colin Koopman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon and author of Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty. Zusammenfassung Shows that philosophical genealogy involves not only the critique of modernity but also its transformation Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: What Genealogy Does 1. Critical Historiography: Politics, Philosophy & Problematization 2. Three Uses of Genealogy: Subversion, Vindication & Problematization 3. What Problematization Is: Contingency, Complexity & Critique 4. What Problematization Does: Aims, Sources & Implications 5. Foucault's Problematization of Modernity: The Reciprocal Incompatibility of Discipline and Liberation 6. Foucault's Reconstruction of Modern Moralities: An Ethics of Self-Transformation 7. Problematization plus Reconstruction: Genealogy, Pragmatism & Critical Theory Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Colin Koopman
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.03.2013
• EAN: 9780253006219
• ISBN: 978-0-253-00621-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 25 mm
• Series: American Philosophy; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day