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release name: Fabricating.Foucault.Rationalising.the.Management.of.individuals.eBook-EEn

release date: 05.17.07 size: 1.81 MB

author: Roger Alan Deacon

title: Fabricating Foucault: Rationalising the Management of

Individuals

ISBN: 0874626617 FORMAT: PDF category/genre: Philosophy

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This book explores the implications of the work

of Michel Foucault for the Enlightenment

project. Specifically, it asks whether and how

the modern drive to explain the world so as to

guide political action and promote progressive

change, can be defended in the light of

Foucault's critique of Western philosophy, his

reconceptualisation of power relations and his

account of the subject. Firstly, it is shown how

Foucault's genealogy, a hybrid and polemical

approach, aims to call into question the theories

and practices which underpin the present.

Genealogy problematizes what we have come to take

for granted, and in so doing it requires that we

rethink not only the nature and history of

Western philosophical thought but also the role

of intellectuals. To attempt to write a history

of truth is to ask what one can know of a concept

which structures the very limits of our knowledge.

It is to become aware of the forces and

constraints involved in our production of truth,

and thus to bring to light the complex

relationship between knowledge and power.

Secondly, Foucault argued that, since ancient

times, forms of knowledge and relations of power,

characterised by individualising and totalising

tendencies, have steadily but discontinuously

integrated into disciplinary technologies which

have been instrumental in constituting the

sovereign human individuals which philosophy

assumes as given. Following Foucault's lead in

focusing not on what power is, but on how it

operates historically and in concrete ways, it

is shown how Foucault reconceptualised relations

of power as strategies of governance which depend

on the existence of free subjects capable of

resistance. Thirdly, the spotlight falls on

the role of relations of power and knowledge,

especially the human sciences, in manufacturing

subjectivity (from souls and bodies to individual

actors), which is in turn related to Foucault's

call to irreverently question the limits of

philosophy and to engage in aesthetic stylistic

experimentation upon ourselves within and against

the bounds imposed on us by our present. The book

concludes by arguing that Foucault's iconoclastic

genealogy of our limits and our possibilities

leaves us with a rich set of analyses and strategies

with which we might render modernity unfamiliar and

available for refabrication.

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