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Foucault and His Interlocutors
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by Arnold I. Davidson
University of Chicago Press
Due/Published
April 1998, 325 pages,
paper
ISBN
0226137147
New in paper! More Foucault--including several works previously unpublished in English. This book begins with the debate between Foucault and Chomsky on epistemology and politics and includes contributions from Georges Canguilhem, Deleuze, Derrida, Pierre Hadot, Michel Serres, and Paul Veyne. |
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Review
This collection provides an excellent complement to the recent English publications of Dits et Ecrits and stands alone as indispensable volume for a reinvestigation of Foucault's thought through his colleagues. The essays are not merely commentaries but are part of an exchange that shaped Foucault's thought and the philosophical discourse of the last thirty years. Of particular interest is the role of ancient philosophy on Foucault's later writings on ethics, and the influence of Pierre Hadot's essay (included in this volume), "Forms of Life and Forms of Discourse in Ancient Philosophy." The debate between Foucault and Chomsky of Dutch television, "Human Nature: Justice versus Power," illuminates Foucault's later project to construct a history and politics without human nature. There are also essays focusing on Foucault's History of Madness including writings by Georges Canguilhem, with whom Foucault maintained a decades-long correspondence. Other essays include, "The Geometry of the Incommunicable: Madness," Michael Serres; "To Do Justice to Freud: The hisory of Madness in the Age of Psychoanalysis," Jacques Derrida; "Foucault Revolutionize History," Paul Veyne; "Desire and Pleasure," Gilles Deleuze; "The Final Foucault and His Ethics," Paul Veyne. In addition there is an essay by Foucault himself, "Writing the Self" and introductory remarks to the essays by Davidson as well as his introduction exploring Foucault's philosophy of language and relationship with Anglo-American language philosophy.
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