Understanding Foucault Understanding Modernism

Author : David Scott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1628927704
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism written by David Scott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Foucault remains to this day a thinker who stands unchallenged as one of the most important of the 20th century. Among the characteristics that have made him influential is his insistent blurring of the border separating philosophy and literature and art, carried out on the basis of his confronting the problem of modernism, which he characterizes as a permanent task. To that end, even his most explicitly historical or strictly epistemological and methodological enquiries, which on their surface would seem not to have anything to do with literature, are full of allusions to modernist writers and artists like Mallarme, Baudelaire, Artaud, Klee, Borges, Broch-sometimes fleetingly, sometimes more extensively, as is the case with Foucault's life-long devotion to Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot, and de Sade. Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism shows, on the one hand, that literature and the arts play a fundamental structural role in Foucault's works, while, on the other hand, it shifts to the foreground what it presumes to be motivating Foucault: the interrogation of the problem of modernism.

Author : Matan Oram
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317284534
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernity and Crisis in the Thought of Michel Foucault written by Matan Oram and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few studies of Foucault have examined his thought from a sustained interdisciplinary perspective. Through the interpretative prism of the concept of the ‘Totality of Reason’, this book suggests an original analytical reading of Foucault's thought. This book addresses Foucault’s characterizations of the Enlightenment, asking whether the developmental history of the modern conception of knowledge – from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment – warrants the conclusion he draws. From the perspective of a critical evaluation of Foucault's thesis on ‘the crisis of modernity’, the book examines whether Foucault, the philosophical and social critic, truly belongs to those intellectual trends known as a ‘deconstruction’ and ‘post-modernism’ that advocate a wholesale rejection of the project of modernity, demonstrating how a classification of this kind contributes to an impoverishment of our understanding of Foucault's thought. This book will attract the attention of readers interested in Foucault, and what is broadly perceived to be the ‘crisis of modernity’. It will appeal to scholars and advanced students of sociology, political philosophy and political science, psychology, philosophy, interdisciplinary studies and cultural studies.

Author : Stephen R. C. Hicks
Publisher : Scholargy Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781592476428
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Explaining Postmodernism written by Stephen R. C. Hicks and published by Scholargy Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven Best
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349217182
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Theory written by Steven Best and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1991-11-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to and critique of the latest trends in critical theory.

Author : Mark Steven
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501351125
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Marx, Understanding Modernism written by Mark Steven and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concentrated study of the relationships between modernism and transformative left utopianism, this volume provides an introduction to Marx and Marxism for modernists, and an introduction to modernism for Marxists. Its guiding hypothesis is that Marx's writing absorbed the lessons of artistic and cultural modernity as much as his legacy concretely shaped modernism across multiple media.

Author : Christopher Langlois
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 150133137X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Blanchot, Understanding Modernism written by Christopher Langlois and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maurice Blanchot occupies a central though still-overlooked position in the Anglo-American reception of 20th-century continental philosophy and literary criticism. On the one hand, his rigorous yet always-playful exchanges with the most challenging figures of the philosophical and literary canons of modernity have led thinkers such as Georges Bataille, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault to acknowledge Blanchot as a major influence on the development of literary and philosophical culture after World War II. On the other hand, Blanchot's reputation for frustrating readers with his difficult style of thought and writing has resulted in a missed opportunity for leveraging Blanchot in advancing the most essential discussions and debates going on today in the comparative study of literature, philosophy, politics, history, ethics, and art. Blanchot's voice is simply too profound, too erudite, and too illuminating of what is at stake at the intersections of these disciplines not to be exercising more of an influence than it has in only a minority of intellectual circles. Understanding Blanchot, Understanding Modernism brings together an international cast of leading and emergent scholars in making the case for precisely what contemporary modernist studies stands to gain from close inspection of Blanchot's provocative post-war writings.

Author : Ariane Mildenberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501302736
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism written by Ariane Mildenberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism brings into dialogue Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology with modernist art, literature, music, film and neurophysiological discoveries, opening up the complexities of the philosopher's phenomenology of perception to a broader audience across the arts. An important resource for anyone interested in the links between modernism and philosophy, Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism offers close readings of Merleau-Ponty's key texts, explores modernist works in light of his thought, and provides an extended glossary of Merleau-Ponty's central terms and concepts.

Author : Arka Chattopadhyay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501384414
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Badiou, Understanding Modernism written by Arka Chattopadhyay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his philosophical project, aesthetic orientation and political leanings, Alain Badiou is a product of, and a leading advocate for, European modernism. From the milieu of May 1968 to the contemporary 'postmodern' ethos, Badiou returns, time and again, to avant-garde modernist texts – aesthetic, political, philosophical and scientific – as inspiration for his response to present situations. Drawing upon disciplines as varied as architecture, cinema, theatre, music, history, mathematics, poetry and philosophy, Understanding Badiou, Understanding Modernism shows how Badiou's contribution to philosophy must be understood within the context of his decades-long conversation with modernist thinking. As with other volumes in the series, Understanding Badiou, Understanding Modernism follows a three part structure. The first section explores Badiou's readings of aesthetic, political and scientific modernities; both introducing his system and pointing to how Badiou offers manifold readings of modernism. The middle portion of the book connects Badiou's thought with the various strands of aesthetic, philosophical, amorous and political modernisms in relation to which it can be extended. The final section is a glossary of key concepts and categories that Badiou uses in his interface with modernism.

Author : David H. Evans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501302760
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding James, Understanding Modernism written by David H. Evans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychologist, philosopher, teacher, writer-William James stood closer than any other thinker to the center of the confluence of intellectual and artistic forces that defined the culture of modernism. The outstanding feature of this volume lies in its intent to investigate James's influence on both American and International Modernism. It provides, on the one hand, a multifaceted introduction to students of history, philosophy, and culture, and on the other, a compendium of some of the most up-to-date thinking on this central figure. James's first book, Principles of Psychology (1890) immediately established James as the leading psychologist of his time, at a moment in history when psychology seemed to offer the promise of finding some definitive answers to eternal philosophical conundra. James's innovations would register a clear effect on much modernist art, most evidently in the stylistic prose experiments of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and their imitators. James's tentative skepticism concerning the concept of consciousness as such, and the post-Cartesian ego that was its foundation, also anticipates the questioning of the subject that would be the theme of much modern, and indeed postmodern thought. The contributors to this volume explore James's most essential texts as well as his influence on contemporary writers, artists, and thinkers. The final section is a glossary of James's key terms, with entries written by leading experts.

Author : Geoff Danaher
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120818187
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Foucault written by Geoff Danaher and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derided and disregarded by many of his contemporaries, Michel Foucault is now regarded as probably the most influential thinker of the twentieth century--his work is studied across the humanities and social sciences, among other disciplines. Readin