Foucault on Freedom

Informationen zum Autor Johanna Oksala is a Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Helsinki. She has published articles on Foucault! phenomenology and feminist philosophy. Klappentext Oksala identifies the different interpretations of freedom in Foucault's philosophy and examines its three major divisions. Zusammenfassung This clear and comprehensive analysis of Foucault's thought identifies the different interpretations of freedom in his philosophy and examines three major divisions of it: the archaeological! the genealogical! and the ethical. It also discusses Foucault's treatment of the body in relation to recent feminist work on this topic. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Language: 1. Philosophical laughter; 2. The Foucaultian failure of phenomenology; 3. The anonymity of language; Part II. Body: 4. A genealogy of the subject; 5. Anarchic bodies; 6. Female freedom; Part III. Ethics: 7. The silence of ethics; 8. The freedom of philosophy; 9. The other; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Oksala Johanna, Johanna Oksala, Johanna (University of Helsinki) Oksala
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521122948
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12294-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Modern European Philosophy (Pa
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day