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• catalog abstract "Annotation Deacon, a scholar whose academic affiliations are not given, examines the implications of the work of Michel Foucault, questioning whether and how the modern drive to explain the world in such a way as to guide political action and promote progressive change can be defended in the light of Foucault's critique of Western philosophy, his reconceptualization of power relations, and his account of the subject. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com). Annotation This book explores the implications of the work of Michel Foucault for the Enlightenment project. Specifically, it asks whether and how the modern drive to explain the world so as to guide political action and promote progressive change, can be defended in the light of Foucault's critique of Western philosophy, his reconceptualisation of power relations and his account of the subject. Firstly, it is shown how Foucault's genealogy, a hybrid and polemical approach, aims to call into question the theories and practices which underpin the present. Genealogy problematizes what we have come to take for granted, and in so doing it requires that we rethink not only the nature and history of Western philosophical thought but also the role of intellectuals. To attempt to write a history of truth is to ask what one can know of a concept which structures the very limits of our knowledge. It is to become aware of the forces and constraints involved in our production of truth, and thus to bring to light thecomplex relationship between knowledge and power. Secondly, Foucault argued that, since ancient times, forms of knowledge and relations of power, characterised by individualising and totalising tendencies, have steadily but discontinuously integrated into disciplinary technologies which have been instrumental in constituting the sovereign human individuals which philosophy assumes as given. Following Foucault's lead in focusing not on what power is, but on how it operates historically and in concrete ways, it is shown how Foucault reconceptualised relations of power as strategies of governance which depend on the existence of free subjects capable of resistance. Thirdly, the spotlight falls on therole of relations of power and knowledge, especially the human sciences, in manufacturing subjectivity (from souls and bodies to individual actors), which is in turn related to Foucault's call to irreverently question the limits of philosophy and to engage in aesthetic s.".
• catalog contributor b13096812.
• catalog created "c2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "c2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
• catalog description "Annotation Deacon, a scholar whose academic affiliations are not given, examines the implications of the work of Michel Foucault, questioning whether and how the modern drive to explain the world in such a way as to guide political action and promote progressive change can be defended in the light of Foucault's critique of Western philosophy, his reconceptualization of power relations, and his account of the subject. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).".
• catalog description "Annotation".
• catalog description "Enlightenment, truth and the critique of reason -- Genealogy and the problematization of enlightenment -- Power as sovereignty and the history of discipline -- Reconceptualising power relations -- The production of subjectivity.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-300) and indexes.".
• catalog description "It is to become aware of the forces and constraints involved in our production of truth, and thus to bring to light thecomplex relationship between knowledge and power. Secondly, Foucault argued that, since ancient times, forms of knowledge and relations of power, characterised by individualising and totalising tendencies, have steadily but discontinuously integrated into disciplinary technologies which have been instrumental in constituting the sovereign human individuals which philosophy assumes as given. Following Foucault's lead in focusing not on what power is, but on how it operates historically and in concrete ways, it is shown how Foucault reconceptualised relations of power as strategies of governance which depend on the existence of free subjects capable of resistance. ".
• catalog description "Thirdly, the spotlight falls on therole of relations of power and knowledge, especially the human sciences, in manufacturing subjectivity (from souls and bodies to individual actors), which is in turn related to Foucault's call to irreverently question the limits of philosophy and to engage in aesthetic s.".
• catalog description "This book explores the implications of the work of Michel Foucault for the Enlightenment project. Specifically, it asks whether and how the modern drive to explain the world so as to guide political action and promote progressive change, can be defended in the light of Foucault's critique of Western philosophy, his reconceptualisation of power relations and his account of the subject. Firstly, it is shown how Foucault's genealogy, a hybrid and polemical approach, aims to call into question the theories and practices which underpin the present. Genealogy problematizes what we have come to take for granted, and in so doing it requires that we rethink not only the nature and history of Western philosophical thought but also the role of intellectuals. To attempt to write a history of truth is to ask what one can know of a concept which structures the very limits of our knowledge. ".
• catalog extent "306 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Fabricating Foucault.".
• catalog identifier "0874626617 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Fabricating Foucault.".
• catalog isPartOf "Marquette studies in philosophy ; #38.".
• catalog isPartOf "Marquette studies in philosophy ; no. 38".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "c2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Milwaukee : Marquette University Press,".
• catalog relation "Fabricating Foucault.".
• catalog subject "194 22".
• catalog subject "B2430.F724 D43 2003".
• catalog subject "Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Enlightenment, truth and the critique of reason -- Genealogy and the problematization of enlightenment -- Power as sovereignty and the history of discipline -- Reconceptualising power relations -- The production of subjectivity.".
• catalog title "Fabricating Foucault : rationalising the management of individuals / by Roger Alan Deacon.".
• catalog type "text".