In Slavoj A izek and Michel Foucault, this book brings together two of the most prominent thinkers in contemporary critical theory. Starting from a critical assessment of the Foucauldian paradigm of discourse analysis, it explores the theoretical scope and political consequences of A izek's blend of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Hegelian philosophy and Marxist politics. The comparis...(展开全部)

This book, which Foucault himself has judged accurate, is the first to provide a sustained, coherent analysis of Foucault’s work as a whole. To demonstrate the sense in which Foucault’s work is beyond structuralism and hermeneutics, the authors unfold a careful, analytical exposition of his oeuvre. They argue that during the of Foucault’s work became a sustained and largely suc...(展开全部)

Hubert Lederer Dreyfus (1929-2017) was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Paul Rabinow (1944-2021) was a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

This book, which Foucault himself has judged accurate, is the first to provide a sustained, coherent analysis of Foucault’s work as a whole. To demonstrate the sense in which Foucault’s work is beyond structuralism and hermeneutics, the authors unfold a careful, analytical exposition of his oeuvre. They argue that during the of Foucault’s work became a sustained and largely suc...(展开全部)

Hubert Lederer Dreyfus (1929-2017) was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Paul Rabinow (1944-2021) was a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

In these two essays, two of the most important French thinkers of our time reflect on each other's work. In so doing, novelist/essayist Maurice Blanchot and philosopher Michel Foucault develop a new perspective on the relationship between subjectivity, fiction, and the will to truth. The two texts present reflections on writing, language, and representation which question the s...(展开全部)