Overview
- Articulates the idea of Foucauldian œuvre, or critical history
- Interprets how Foucault works both through and beyond Kant and Neitzsche
- Advocates an agnostic concept of freedom, or creative resistance, as the constitutive effect of power and knowledge
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
This book presents the first sustained articulation of a Foucauldian œuvre. It situates Foucault’s critique within the tradition of Kant’s call for a philosophical archaeology of reason; in parallel, it demonstrates the priority in Foucault’s thought of Nietzsche over Heidegger and the framing of reason against an ontology of power. Bregham Dalgliesh hereby claims that at the heart of the Foucauldian œuvre is the philosophical method of critical history. Its task is to make the will to know that drives thought conscious of itself as a problem, especially the regimes of truth that define our governmentalities. By revealing the contingency of their constituent parts of knowledge, power and ethics, Dalgliesh demonstrates that critical history offers an alternative mode of critique to the hithertofore singular reading of the intellectual heritage of enlightenment, while it fosters an agonistic concept of freedom in respect of our putatively necessary limits.
Reviews
"Dalgliesh's impressive survey of Foucault's oeuvre presents him as exemplar of an alternative mode of enlightenment critical thought. He provides a lucid account and a compelling defense of Foucault's critical historical approach to the present. He shows the novelty and complementarity of Foucault's Kantianism and his Nietzscheanism in a manner that invites reconsideration of all three great modern thinkers." (Paul Patton, University of New South Wales Australia)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bregham Dalgliesh is associate professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He previously taught in Canada, the U.K. and France, where he remains an associate researcher of LASCO (Laboratoire Sens et Compréhension du monde contemporain) at the Institut Mines-Télécom. He has published widely across disciplines, with the task of philosophical critique taken up through an engagement with the multifarious effects of technoscience on the human condition.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critique as Critical History
Authors: Bregham Dalgliesh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61009-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61008-5Published: 07 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86982-7Published: 11 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61009-2Published: 22 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 252
Topics: Critical Theory, Philosophy of History, Philosophy of the Social Sciences