ABSTRACT
Michel Foucault was one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers whose work has unsettled and transformed the field of social philosophy and the social sciences. The essays and articles selected for this volume are written by many of the most important of Foucault’s interpreters and interlocutors and show the range of Foucault’s influence and the debates it has provoked about Foucault’s own approaches and in relation to substantive areas of social philosophy and social science such as power, critique, enlightenment, law, governance, ethics and truthfulness. This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to, and overview of, the development of Foucault’s thought and demonstrates its enduring significance on our understanding of how we have become what we are.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|1 pages
Methodology
part 2|1 pages
Freedom and Power
part 3|1 pages
Critique and Normativity: The Foucault—Habermas Debate
chapter 12|53 pages
To Think and Act Differently
part 4|1 pages
On Enlightenment
part 5|1 pages
On Political Reason
part 6|1 pages
On Law
part 7|1 pages
On Ethics, The Aesthetics of Existence and Parrhesia