Foucault's Legacy (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Prado, C. G.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Foucault's Legacy brings together the work of eight Foucault specialists in an important collection of essays marking the 25th anniversary of Foucault's death. Focusing on the importance of Foucault's most central ideas for present-day philosophy, the book shows how his influence goes beyond his own canonical tradition and linguistic milieu. The essays in this book explore key areas of Foucault's thought by comparing aspects of his work with the thought of a number of major philosophers, including Nietzsche, Heidegger, Rorty, Hegel, Searle, Vattimo and Williams. Crucially the book also considers the applicability of his central ideas to broader issues such as totalitarianism, religion, and self-sacrifice. Presenting a fresh and exciting vision of Foucault as a philosopher of enduring influence, the book shows how important Foucault remains to philosophy today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441131508
• Artikelnr.: 38303846

Autorenporträt

C.G. Prado is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Queen's University, Canada. His previous publications include Starting with Foucault (Westview, 2000), A House Divided: Comparing Analytic and Continental Philosophy (Humanity, 2003), Searle and Foucault on Truth (Cambridge, 2006) and Choosing to Die: Elective Death and Multiculturalism (Cambridge, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Editor's Introduction
C.G. Prado (Queen's University
Canada) 1. The Temporality of Power
David Couzens Hoy (University of California
Santa Cruz
USA) 2. A Philosophical Shock: Foucault Reading Nietzsche
Reading Heidegger
Babette Babich (Fordham University
USA) 3. Foucault
Hegel and the Death of Man
Tom Rockmore (Duquesne University
USA) 4. After Knowledge and Liberty: Foucault and the New Pragmatism
Barry Allen (McMaster University
Canada) 5. Two Uses of Genealogy: Michel Foucault and Bernard Williams
Colin Koopman (University of California
Santa Cruz
USA) 6. Weakening Ontology Through Actuality: Foucault and Vattimo
Santiago Zabala (Potsdam University
Germany) 7. Michel Foucault
Secularization Theory and the Theological Origins of Totalitarianism
Michael Lackey (University of Minnesota
USA) 8. Secular Self-Sacrifice: On Michel Foucault's Courses at the Collège de France
James Bernauer (Boston College
USA) Bibliography Index