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Michel Foucault's Practical Philosophy

Michel Foucault's Practical Philosophy A Critique of Subjectivation Processes - SUNY Series in Contemporary French Thought

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Offers a holistic approach to Michel Foucault's thought, introducing the idea of practical philosophy as an original interpretative framework.

Michel Foucault's thought, Maddalena Cerrato writes, may be understood as practical philosophy. In this perspective, political analysis, philosophy of history, epistemology, and ethics appear as necessarily cast together in a philosophical project that aims to rethink freedom and emancipation from domination of all kinds. The idea of practical philosophy accounts for Foucault's specific approach to the object, as well as to the task of philosophy, and it identifies the perspective that led him to consider the question of subjectivity as the guiding thread of his work. Overall, Cerrato shows the deep consistency underlying Foucault's reflection and the substantial coherence of his philosophical itinerary, setting aside all the conventional interpretations that pivot on the idea that his thought underwent a radical "turn" from the political engagement of the question of power toward an ethical retrieval of the question of subjectivity.

Book information

ISBN: 9798855802207
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Imprint: SUNY Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 194
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 151
Weight: 380g
Height: 159mm
Width: 237mm
Spine width: 17mm