
Foucault
A Critical Reader
David C. Hoy(Editor)
Wiley (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 25. September 1986
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-631-14043-6 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of articles on Michel Foucault confirms his position as one of the most influential thinkers in this last quarter of the century, and simultaneously demonstrates the current ambivalence among philosophers and social scientists about the actual grounds for such an assessment.
Reviews / Votes
"Here at last is a collection of articles on Michel Foucault which confirms his position as one of the most influential thinkers in this last quarter of the century and yet simultaneously demonstrates the current ambivalence among philosophers and social scientists about the actual grounds for such an assessment ... Content alone would make this collection an essential choice for graduate work. Its overall stylistic clarity, even in the face of Foucault's denser formulations, makes it, however, compulsory reading for anyone else who wishes to assess how near Foucault came to chronicling what Richard Rorty calls those speculative possibilities that exceed our present grasp but may nevertheless be our future." Laurie Taylor, Times Higher Education SupplementMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
397 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-14043-6 (9780631140436)
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Person
David C. Hoy is the author of Foucault: A Critical Reader, published by Wiley.
Content
Preface Introduction
Part I: The Evolution of Empiricism
1. Language and the World
2. Rules and Rationality
3. Naturalism, Realism and Pragmatism
Part II: Logic and Reality
4. Physicalism and Objectivity
5. Logic: Canonical Notation and Extensionality
6. Intensionality
7. Necessity: Logic and Metaphysics
Part III: Mind and Meaning
8. Indeterminacy of Translation
9. Translation and explanation
10. Holism, interpretation and the autonomy of psychology
Part IV: Knowledge and reality
11. Nature and Experience
12. Physicalism and Reality
Part I: The Evolution of Empiricism
1. Language and the World
2. Rules and Rationality
3. Naturalism, Realism and Pragmatism
Part II: Logic and Reality
4. Physicalism and Objectivity
5. Logic: Canonical Notation and Extensionality
6. Intensionality
7. Necessity: Logic and Metaphysics
Part III: Mind and Meaning
8. Indeterminacy of Translation
9. Translation and explanation
10. Holism, interpretation and the autonomy of psychology
Part IV: Knowledge and reality
11. Nature and Experience
12. Physicalism and Reality