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Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism

Scott, David
Innbundet / 2017 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781628927702
Publisert
2017-02-23
Utgiver
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Bloomsbury Academic USA
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544 gr
HĂžyde
229 mm
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152 mm
AldersnivÄ
U, 05
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
280

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Scott, David

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David Scott is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Philosophy Program at Coppin State University, Baltimore, MD, USA. Originally trained as a fine arts painter, he holds a doctorate in Literature from the University of Virginia and a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Memphis. He is the author of Gilbert Simondon's Psychic and Collective Individuation (2014), along with several published articles and chapters on Bergson, Heidegger, Deleuze, and Merleau-Ponty, and translator of Deleuze’s first published work on Hume’s philosophy. Scott publishes on intersections of art and philosophy, as well as on race and social and political theory.

Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism

Scott, David
Innbundet / 2017 / Engelsk
Scott, David
Innbundet / 2017 / Engelsk
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Foucault’s radical and incisive analysis of modernity has had a transformative effect on our understanding of history. This wide-ranging volume allows us to connect that analysis to his more neglected account of aesthetic modernism. It gives us a fuller and richer picture of a thinker who remains indispensable.

Simon During, Australian Research Professor, University of Queensland, Australia

David Scott has brought together an exceptional group of scholars to explore the range of Foucault’s penetrating analysis of modernity. The tripartite structure of the volume—which includes close readings of Foucault’s major books, analyses of Foucault’s engagements with modernist literature and art, and a glossary of Foucault’s key concepts—makes this a delightfully accessible and comprehensive guide to Foucault’s work.

Daniel W. Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University, USA

Michel Foucault (1926–84) devoted path-breaking works of critical analysis to deciphering “games of truth.” One of his notable preoccupations was the problem of historical discourse and its pronounced tendency toward periodization. The essays in the present, handsomely designed volume trace the mercurial philosopher’s many lines of inquiry converging on the problematic notion of modernity. Like other volumes in the<i> Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism</i> series, the book comprises three main sections, one on conceptualizing, another on aesthetics, and a third offering a glossary. Most of the 19 contributors are young scholars working in the areas of philosophy, English, art, ethics, and religion—a range that lends this collection a cutting-edge flavor—and most are from North America, though universities abroad are represented. The essays in the first two sections are well crafted, insightful, and scholarly; the brief glossary and essays in part 3 highlight Foucault’s pivotal terms and make the volume especially useful for nonspecialists. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.

CHOICE

Michel Foucault continues to be regarded as one of the most essential thinkers of the twentieth century. A brilliantly evocative writer and conceptual creator, his influence is clearly discernible today across nearly every discipline—philosophy and history, certainly, as well as literary and critical theory, religious and social studies, and the arts. This volume exploits Foucault’s insistent blurring of the self-imposed limits formed by the disciplines, with each author in this volume discovering in Foucault’s work a model useful for challenging not only these divisions but developing a more fundamental interrogation of modernism. Foucault himself saw the calling into question of modernism to be the permanent task of his life’s work, thereby opening a path for rethinking the social. Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism shows, on the one hand, that literature and the arts play a fundamental structural role in Foucault’s works, while, on the other hand, it shifts to the foreground what it presumes to be motivating Foucault: the interrogation of the problem of modernism. To that end, even his most explicitly historical or strictly epistemological and methodological enquiries directly engage the problem of modernism through the works of writers and artists from de Sade, MallarmĂ©, Baudelaire to Artaud, Manet, Borges, Roussel, and Bataille. This volume, therefore, adopts a transdisciplinary approach, as a way to establish connections between Foucault’s thought and the aesthetic problems that emerge out of those specific literary and artistic works, methods, and styles designated “modern.” The aim of this volume is to provide a resource for students and scholars not only in the fields of literature and philosophy, but as well those interested in the intersections of art and intellectual history, religious studies, and critical theory.
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Series PrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Foucault's ModernismsDavid Scott, Coppin State University, USAPart 1. Conceptualizing Foucault 1. The Origin of Parresia in Foucault’s Thinking: Truth and Freedom in The History of MadnessLeonard Lawlor and Daniel J. Palumbo, Penn State University, USA2. The Secret of the Corpse-Language Machine: The Birth of the Clinic and Raymond RousselDavid Scott, Coppin State University, USA3. Intersections of the Concept and Literature in TheOrder of Things: Foucault and CanguilhemSamuel Talcott, University of the Sciences, USA4. Archeology of Knowledge: Foucault and the Time of DiscourseHeath Massey, Beloit University, USA5. Carceral, Capital, Power: The ‘Dark Side’ of the Enlightenment in Discipline and PunishChristopher Penfield, Purdue University, USA6. Foucault’s History of SexualityChloĂ« Taylor, University of Alberta, CanadaPart 2. Foucault and Aesthetics 7. Technologies of Modernism: Historicism in Foucault and Dos PassosChristopher Breu, Illinois State University, USA8. Thought as Spirituality in Raymond RousselAnn Burlein, Hofstra University, USA9. Life Escaping: Foucault, Vitalism, and Gertrude Stein’s Life-WritingSarah Posman, Ghent University, Belgium10. The Specter of Manet: A Contribution to the Archaeology of PaintingJoseph Tanke, University of Hawaii, USA11. The Hermaphroditic Image: Modern Art, Thought and ExpĂ©rience in Michel FoucaultNicole Ridgway, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USAPart 3. Glossary ArchaeologyHeath Massey, Beloit College, USAThe "Author-Function"Seth Forrest, Coppin State University, USABiopowerChloĂ« Taylor, University of Alberta, CanadaDisciplineSteve Tammelleo, University of San Diego, USAEpistemeSamuel Talcott, University of the Sciences, USAGenealogyBrad Elliot Stone, Loyola Marymount University, USAPowerBrad Elliot Stone, Loyola Marymount University, USAProblematizationDaniele Lorenzini, University Paris-Est CrĂ©teil, FranceTransgressionJanae Scholtz, Alvernia University, USATruthMarc De Kesel, Saint Paul University, CanadaSubjectivationMark Murphy, University of Glasgow, UKNotes on ContributorsIndex
Les mer
Explores and illuminates Foucault's profound impact on our understanding of literary modernism.
Thorough and mult-faceted exploration of Foucault's influence on the literature and study of modernism
The aim of each volume in Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism is to understand a philosophical thinker more fully through literary and cultural modernism and consequently to understand literary modernism better through a key philosophical figure. In this way, the series also rethinks the limits of modernism, calling attention to lacunae in modernist studies and sometimes in the philosophical work under examination. The unique structure of the volumes allows the term “understanding” to describe an introductory knowledge of a field and a figure for advanced students and scholars new to the subject, while at the same time describing the evolving “understanding” scholars in a field gain with the publication of a new body of work by leading experts. This multi-level understanding emerges from a three-part division of each volume. The first part conceptualizes the volume’s key figure by offering close readings of their central philosophical texts. The second section on aesthetics resembles a more traditional edited collection by bringing together new research by diverse international scholars aimed at mapping relationships between the thought of a key philosophical figure and the literary work of a variety of modernist texts. The final section of each volume is an extended glossary of the philosopher’s key terms. In a departure from conventional glossaries, however, the entries are mini-essays in themselves, allowing a real engagement with the many, sometimes contradictory, ways the figure has applied the terms. Each definition has its own expert contributor.
Les mer

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Foucault’s radical and incisive analysis of modernity has had a transformative effect on our understanding of history. This wide-ranging volume allows us to connect that analysis to his more neglected account of aesthetic modernism. It gives us a fuller and richer picture of a thinker who remains indispensable.

Simon During, Australian Research Professor, University of Queensland, Australia

David Scott has brought together an exceptional group of scholars to explore the range of Foucault’s penetrating analysis of modernity. The tripartite structure of the volume—which includes close readings of Foucault’s major books, analyses of Foucault’s engagements with modernist literature and art, and a glossary of Foucault’s key concepts—makes this a delightfully accessible and comprehensive guide to Foucault’s work.

Daniel W. Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University, USA

Michel Foucault (1926–84) devoted path-breaking works of critical analysis to deciphering “games of truth.” One of his notable preoccupations was the problem of historical discourse and its pronounced tendency toward periodization. The essays in the present, handsomely designed volume trace the mercurial philosopher’s many lines of inquiry converging on the problematic notion of modernity. Like other volumes in the<i> Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism</i> series, the book comprises three main sections, one on conceptualizing, another on aesthetics, and a third offering a glossary. Most of the 19 contributors are young scholars working in the areas of philosophy, English, art, ethics, and religion—a range that lends this collection a cutting-edge flavor—and most are from North America, though universities abroad are represented. The essays in the first two sections are well crafted, insightful, and scholarly; the brief glossary and essays in part 3 highlight Foucault’s pivotal terms and make the volume especially useful for nonspecialists. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.

CHOICE

Michel Foucault continues to be regarded as one of the most essential thinkers of the twentieth century. A brilliantly evocative writer and conceptual creator, his influence is clearly discernible today across nearly every discipline—philosophy and history, certainly, as well as literary and critical theory, religious and social studies, and the arts. This volume exploits Foucault’s insistent blurring of the self-imposed limits formed by the disciplines, with each author in this volume discovering in Foucault’s work a model useful for challenging not only these divisions but developing a more fundamental interrogation of modernism. Foucault himself saw the calling into question of modernism to be the permanent task of his life’s work, thereby opening a path for rethinking the social. Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism shows, on the one hand, that literature and the arts play a fundamental structural role in Foucault’s works, while, on the other hand, it shifts to the foreground what it presumes to be motivating Foucault: the interrogation of the problem of modernism. To that end, even his most explicitly historical or strictly epistemological and methodological enquiries directly engage the problem of modernism through the works of writers and artists from de Sade, MallarmĂ©, Baudelaire to Artaud, Manet, Borges, Roussel, and Bataille. This volume, therefore, adopts a transdisciplinary approach, as a way to establish connections between Foucault’s thought and the aesthetic problems that emerge out of those specific literary and artistic works, methods, and styles designated “modern.” The aim of this volume is to provide a resource for students and scholars not only in the fields of literature and philosophy, but as well those interested in the intersections of art and intellectual history, religious studies, and critical theory.
Les mer
Series PrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Foucault's ModernismsDavid Scott, Coppin State University, USAPart 1. Conceptualizing Foucault 1. The Origin of Parresia in Foucault’s Thinking: Truth and Freedom in The History of MadnessLeonard Lawlor and Daniel J. Palumbo, Penn State University, USA2. The Secret of the Corpse-Language Machine: The Birth of the Clinic and Raymond RousselDavid Scott, Coppin State University, USA3. Intersections of the Concept and Literature in TheOrder of Things: Foucault and CanguilhemSamuel Talcott, University of the Sciences, USA4. Archeology of Knowledge: Foucault and the Time of DiscourseHeath Massey, Beloit University, USA5. Carceral, Capital, Power: The ‘Dark Side’ of the Enlightenment in Discipline and PunishChristopher Penfield, Purdue University, USA6. Foucault’s History of SexualityChloĂ« Taylor, University of Alberta, CanadaPart 2. Foucault and Aesthetics 7. Technologies of Modernism: Historicism in Foucault and Dos PassosChristopher Breu, Illinois State University, USA8. Thought as Spirituality in Raymond RousselAnn Burlein, Hofstra University, USA9. Life Escaping: Foucault, Vitalism, and Gertrude Stein’s Life-WritingSarah Posman, Ghent University, Belgium10. The Specter of Manet: A Contribution to the Archaeology of PaintingJoseph Tanke, University of Hawaii, USA11. The Hermaphroditic Image: Modern Art, Thought and ExpĂ©rience in Michel FoucaultNicole Ridgway, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USAPart 3. Glossary ArchaeologyHeath Massey, Beloit College, USAThe "Author-Function"Seth Forrest, Coppin State University, USABiopowerChloĂ« Taylor, University of Alberta, CanadaDisciplineSteve Tammelleo, University of San Diego, USAEpistemeSamuel Talcott, University of the Sciences, USAGenealogyBrad Elliot Stone, Loyola Marymount University, USAPowerBrad Elliot Stone, Loyola Marymount University, USAProblematizationDaniele Lorenzini, University Paris-Est CrĂ©teil, FranceTransgressionJanae Scholtz, Alvernia University, USATruthMarc De Kesel, Saint Paul University, CanadaSubjectivationMark Murphy, University of Glasgow, UKNotes on ContributorsIndex
Les mer
Explores and illuminates Foucault's profound impact on our understanding of literary modernism.
Thorough and mult-faceted exploration of Foucault's influence on the literature and study of modernism
The aim of each volume in Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism is to understand a philosophical thinker more fully through literary and cultural modernism and consequently to understand literary modernism better through a key philosophical figure. In this way, the series also rethinks the limits of modernism, calling attention to lacunae in modernist studies and sometimes in the philosophical work under examination. The unique structure of the volumes allows the term “understanding” to describe an introductory knowledge of a field and a figure for advanced students and scholars new to the subject, while at the same time describing the evolving “understanding” scholars in a field gain with the publication of a new body of work by leading experts. This multi-level understanding emerges from a three-part division of each volume. The first part conceptualizes the volume’s key figure by offering close readings of their central philosophical texts. The second section on aesthetics resembles a more traditional edited collection by bringing together new research by diverse international scholars aimed at mapping relationships between the thought of a key philosophical figure and the literary work of a variety of modernist texts. The final section of each volume is an extended glossary of the philosopher’s key terms. In a departure from conventional glossaries, however, the entries are mini-essays in themselves, allowing a real engagement with the many, sometimes contradictory, ways the figure has applied the terms. Each definition has its own expert contributor.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781628927702
Publisert
2017-02-23
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic USA
Vekt
544 gr
HĂžyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
AldersnivÄ
U, 05
SprÄk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
280

RedaktĂžr
Scott, David

Om bidragsyterne

David Scott is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Philosophy Program at Coppin State University, Baltimore, MD, USA. Originally trained as a fine arts painter, he holds a doctorate in Literature from the University of Virginia and a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Memphis. He is the author of Gilbert Simondon's Psychic and Collective Individuation (2014), along with several published articles and chapters on Bergson, Heidegger, Deleuze, and Merleau-Ponty, and translator of Deleuze’s first published work on Hume’s philosophy. Scott publishes on intersections of art and philosophy, as well as on race and social and political theory.

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