Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2018
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-4470-1 (ISBN)

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Michel Foucault continues to be regarded as one of the most essential thinkers of the twentieth century. A brilliantly evocative writer and conceptual creator, his influence is clearly discernible today across nearly every discipline—philosophy and history, certainly, as well as literary and critical theory, religious and social studies, and the arts. This volume exploits Foucault’s insistent blurring of the self-imposed limits formed by the disciplines, with each author in this volume discovering in Foucault’s work a model useful for challenging not only these divisions but developing a more fundamental interrogation of modernism. Foucault himself saw the calling into question of modernism to be the permanent task of his life’s work, thereby opening a path for rethinking the social.

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. To that end, even his most explicitly historical or strictly epistemological and methodological enquiries directly engage the problem of modernism through the works of writers and artists from de Sade, Mallarmé, Baudelaire to Artaud, Manet, Borges, Roussel, and Bataille. This volume, therefore, adopts a transdisciplinary approach, as a way to establish connections between Foucault’s thought and the aesthetic problems that emerge out of those specific literary and artistic works, methods, and styles designated “modern.” The aim of this volume is to provide a resource for students and scholars not only in the fields of literature and philosophy, but as well those interested in the intersections of art and intellectual history, religious studies, and critical theory.

David Scott is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Philosophy Program at Coppin State University, Baltimore, MD, USA. Originally trained as a fine arts painter, he holds a doctorate in Literature from the University of Virginia and a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Memphis. He is the author of Gilbert Simondon's Psychic and Collective Individuation (2014), along with several published articles and chapters on Bergson, Heidegger, Deleuze, and Merleau-Ponty, and translator of Deleuze’s first published work on Hume’s philosophy. Scott publishes on intersections of art and philosophy, as well as on race and social and political theory.

Series Preface
List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Foucault's Modernisms
David Scott, Coppin State University, USA

Part 1. Conceptualizing Foucault
1. The Origin of Parresia in Foucault’s Thinking: Truth and Freedom in The History of Madness
Leonard Lawlor and Daniel J. Palumbo, Penn State University, USA
2. The Secret of the Corpse-Language Machine: The Birth of the Clinic and Raymond Roussel
David Scott, Coppin State University, USA
3. Intersections of the Concept and Literature in TheOrder of Things: Foucault and Canguilhem
Samuel Talcott, University of the Sciences, USA
4. Archeology of Knowledge: Foucault and the Time of Discourse
Heath Massey, Beloit University, USA
5. Carceral, Capital, Power: The ‘Dark Side’ of the Enlightenment in Discipline and Punish
Christopher Penfield, Purdue University, USA
6. Foucault’s History of Sexuality
Chloë Taylor, University of Alberta, Canada

Part 2. Foucault and Aesthetics
7. Technologies of Modernism: Historicism in Foucault and Dos Passos
Christopher Breu, Illinois State University, USA
8. Thought as Spirituality in Raymond Roussel
Ann Burlein, Hofstra University, USA
9. Life Escaping: Foucault, Vitalism, and Gertrude Stein’s Life-Writing
Sarah Posman, Ghent University, Belgium
10. The Specter of Manet: A Contribution to the Archaeology of Painting
Joseph Tanke, University of Hawaii, USA
11. The Hermaphroditic Image: Modern Art, Thought and Expérience in Michel Foucault
Nicole Ridgway, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

Part 3. Glossary
Archaeology
Heath Massey, Beloit College, USA
The "Author-Function"
Seth Forrest, Coppin State University, USA
Biopower
Chloë Taylor, University of Alberta, Canada
Discipline
Steve Tammelleo, University of San Diego, USA
Episteme
Samuel Talcott, University of the Sciences, USA
Genealogy
Brad Elliot Stone, Loyola Marymount University, USA
Power
Brad Elliot Stone, Loyola Marymount University, USA
Problematization
Daniele Lorenzini, University Paris-Est Créteil, France
Transgression
Janae Scholtz, Alvernia University, USA
Truth
Marc De Kesel, Saint Paul University, Canada
Subjectivation
Mark Murphy, University of Glasgow, UK

Notes on Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.09.2018
Reihe/Serie	Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	376 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5013-4470-6 / 1501344706
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-4470-1 / 9781501344701
Zustand	Neuware