Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics

Dreyfus, Hubert L.; Rabinow, Paul

ISBN 10: 0226163121 / ISBN 13: 9780226163123

Published by University of Chicago Press, 1983

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Synopsis:

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 successful effort to develop a new method--interpretative analytics--capable fo explaining both the logic of structuralism's claim to be an objective science and the apparent validity of the hermeneutical counterclaim that the human sciences can proceed only by understanding the deepest meaning of the subject and his tradition. There are many new secondary sources [on Foucault]. None surpass the book by Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow. . . . The American paperback edition contains Foucault's 'On the Genealogy of Ethics, ' a lucid interview that is now our best source for seeing how he construed the whole project of the history of sexuality.--David Hoy, London Review of Books

About the Author: Paul Rabinow is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and ...
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Date: 1983
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: 2nd Edition