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Modernity and Crisis in the Thought of Michel Foucault: The Totality of Reason

Modernity and Crisis in the Thought of Michel Foucault: The Totality of Reason

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

PhilosophyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138187755
ISBN13: 9781138187757
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 21 2016
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

This book addresses Foucault's characterizations of the Enlightenment, asking whether the developmental history of the modern conception of knowledge--from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment--warrants the conclusion he draws. From the perspective of a critical evaluation of Foucault's thesis on the crisis of modernity, the book examines whether Foucault, the philosophical and social critic, truly belongs to those intellectual trends known as a deconstruction and post-modernism that advocate a wholesale rejection of the project of modernity, demonstrating how a classification of this kind contributes to an impoverishment of our understanding of Foucault's thought.

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