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Foucault and the History of Philosophical Transcendence - Christopher Falzon

Foucault and the History of Philosophical Transcendence

Freedom, Nature and Agency
Buch | Hardcover
248 Seiten
2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-18276-9 (ISBN)
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In an original approach to Foucault’s philosophy, Christopher Falzon argues for a reading of Foucault as a philosopher of finite transcendence, and explores its implications for ethics.

In order to distinguish Foucault’s position, Falzon charts the historical trajectory of transcendence as a philosophical concept, starting with the radical notion of transcendence that was introduced by Plato, and which reappears in various forms in subsequent thinkers from the Stoics to Descartes, and from Kant to Sartre. He argues that Foucault’s critique of the transcendent subject of humanism is a rejection not of transcendence per se but of radical transcendence in its distinctively modern form. As such, he shows how Foucault’s conceptualisation of transcendence as finite enables a picture of the human being as neither fully determined nor a creature of infinite possibilities, but as both subject and object, affected by but also able to affect the world.

With the notion of finite transcendence Falzon captures the essence of Foucault’s unique philosophy and provides a new insight into his contribution to ethics. Demonstrating its contemporary relevance, Foucault and the History of Philosophical Transcendence further explores the potential application of Foucault’s approach to the current ecological crisis.

Chris Falzon is Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Introduction: The Importance of Being Finite

1. Foucault and Finite Transcendence
2. Self-transcendence
3. Transcendence, History and Critique
4.The Work of Freedom
5. Individual and Society
6.Life and Death

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10 1-350-18276-1 / 1350182761
ISBN-13 978-1-350-18276-9 / 9781350182769
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