Description
Reading Foucault against the Heideggarian backdrop to his work, Visker shows that Foucault's target is not order as such, but rather the production of ordering systems which cannot acknowledge their own conditions of possibility. Exploring along the way such intriguing issues as the ambivalence of Foucault's concepts of truth and power, and his philosophically provocative use of quotation marks, Visker portrays Foucault as neither relativist nor positivist, neither activist nor detached observer. Instead, Foucault emerges as the inventor of a new analysis of our modern mechanisms of control and exclusion: precisely of 'genealogy as critique'.
A lucid and elegant survey of Foucault's corpus, as well as a major intervention in the debate over the nature of Foucault's work
About the Author
Rudi Visker is a postdoctoral researcher at the Belgium National Fund for Scientific Research, affiliated to the Institute of Philosophy (K.U. Leuven), where he teaches phenomenology and contemporary philosophy. Between 1991 and 1994 he was also a Fellow of Philosophy at the University of Essex.
Book Information
ISBN 9781859840955
Author Rudi Visker
Format Paperback
Page Count 196
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 286g
Dimensions(mm) 218mm * 135mm * 15mm