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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792450303321

Autore

Flynn Thomas R

Titolo

Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason, Volume Two [[electronic resource] ] : A Poststructuralist Mapping of History

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2010

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (409 p.)

Disciplina

194

901

Soggetti

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 -- Contributions in philosophy of history

History -- Philosophy

History - Philosophy

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Works Frequently Cited; Part One: Conceptual Coordinates; 1. Foucault and the Historians; 2. Foucault and Historical Nominalism; 3. The Career of the Historical Event; Part Two: Spatialized Reasoning; 4. The Eclipse of Vision?; 5. The Spaces of History; 6. The Philosopher-Historian as Cartographer; 7. Pyramids and Prisms: Reading Foucault in 3-D; Part Three : Diaries and Maps; 8. Mapping Existentialist History; 9. Experience and the Lived; 10. Sartre on Violence, Foucault on Power: A Diagnostic

11. Foucault as Parrhesiast: His Last Course at the Collè€ge de France (An Object Lesson in Axial History)12. Ethics and History: Authentic vs. Effective History; Conclusion: The Map and the Diary; Glossary; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Sartre and Foucault were two of the most prominent and at times mutually antagonistic philosophical figures of the twentieth century. And nowhere are the antithetical natures of their existentialist and poststructuralist philosophies more apparent than in their disparate approaches to historical understanding. In Volume One of this authoritative two-volume study, Thomas R. Flynn conducted a pivotal and comprehensive reconstruction of Sartrean historical theory. This



long-awaited second volume offers a comprehensive and critical reading of the Foucauldian counterpoint.A history, theorized Fouca