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Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures: The Case of Heidegger and Foucault

Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures: The Case of Heidegger and Foucault

Iyer, Arun

Hardcover

Series: Issues in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics

Philosophy

ISBN10: 144113767X
ISBN13: 9781441137678
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Mar 27 2014
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

By systematically uncovering and comprehensively examining the epistemological implications of Heidegger's history of being and Foucault's archaeology of discursive formations, Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures shows how Heidegger and Foucault significantly expand the notions of knowledge and thought. This is done by tracing their path-breaking responses to the question: What is the object of thought? The book shows how for both thinkers thought is not just the act by which the object is represented in an idea, and knowledge not just a state of the mind of the individual subject corresponding to the object. Each thinker, in his own way, argues that thought is a productive event in which the subject and the object gain their respective identity and knowledge is the opening up of a space in which the subject and object can encounter each other and in which true and false statements about an object become possible. They thereby lay the ground for a new conceptual framework for rethinking the very relationship between knowledge and its object.

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