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OverviewFor decades Foucault was mostly known for his diagnosis of modernity as a form of entrapment, both in our modes of thought and our behaviors. This book argues that Foucault's reappraisal of modernity occurs with the 1978 and 1979 lectures, in which he sketches modern power as governmentality and neoliberalism. From this perspective, Foucault’s once surprising studies on the Greeks' constitution of the ‘self’ can be seen as a continuation of his diagnosis of late modernity, and as an attempt to retrieve a form of autonomy for our modern selves. One finds in the late Foucault a postmodern conception of reason and not a destruction of reason; but this is possible only if postmodernity is seen as a critical exercise of reason in the analysis of norms. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Laurence BarryPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2020 Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9783030489427ISBN 10: 3030489426 Pages: 234 Publication Date: 15 July 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Early Critiques of Modernity: The Human Sciences Between Knowledge and Discipline3. Governmentality as a Turning Point4. From Government to Subjectivity5. Forms of Subjectivity: Subjection/Subjectivation?6. The Genealogy of the Modern Subject7. The “Return to Kant” and Autonomy8. Foucault, Kant, and Critique9. Concluding Remarks: Foucault and Contemporary Social CriticismReviewsAuthor InformationLaurence Barry is an associate lecturer at the Hebrew University and a trained actuary. She currently researches the implications of big data for insurance as a practice of neoliberal governmentality at Chaire PARI (ENSAE/Sciences Po), France. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |