Modernity and Crisis in the Thought of Michel Foucault

Name: Modernity and Crisis in the Thought of Michel Foucault
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Modernity and Crisis in the Thought of Michel FoucaultThe Totality of Reason\nAuthor(s): Matan Oram\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138187757, 978-1138187757\nSynopsis\nFew 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.\n\nThis book addresses Foucaults 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 wholesal.