Genealogy as critique [[electronic resource] ] : Foucault and the problems of modernity / / Colin Koopman

• Autore: Koopman Colin
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (364 p.)
• Disciplina: 194
• Soggetto topico: Genealogy (Philosophy)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: What genealogy does -- Critical historiography: politics, philosophy & problematization -- Three uses of genealogy: subversion, vindication & problematization -- What problematization is: contingency, complexity & critique -- What problematization does: aims, sources & implications -- Foucault's problematization of modernity: the reciprocal incompatibility of discipline and liberation -- Foucault's reconstruction of modern moralities: an ethics of self-transformation -- Problematization plus reconstruction: genealogy, pragmatism & critical theory.
• Sommario/riassunto: Viewing Foucault in the light of work by Continental and American philosophers, most notably Nietzsche, Habermas, Deleuze, Richard Rorty, Bernard Williams, and Ian Hacking, Genealogy as Critique shows that philosophical genealogy involves not only the critique of modernity but also its transformation. Colin Koopman engages genealogy as a philosophical tradition and a method for understanding the complex histories of our present social and cultural conditions. He explains how our understanding of Foucault can benefit from productive dialogue with philosophical allies to push Foucaultian gene
• Titolo autorizzato: Genealogy as critique
• ISBN: 0-253-00623-6; 1-283-94960-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786144603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American Philosophy