An edition of Between genealogy and epistemology (1993)

Between genealogy and epistemology

psychology, politics, and knowledge in the thought of Michel Foucault

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An edition of Between genealogy and epistemology (1993)

Between genealogy and epistemology

psychology, politics, and knowledge in the thought of Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault introduced a new form of political thinking and discourse. Rather than seeking to understand the grand unities of state, economy, or exploitation, he tried to discover the micropolitical workings of everyday life that have often founded the greater unities. He was particularly concerned with how we understand ourselves psychologically, and thus with how psychological knowledge developed and came to be accepted as true. In the course of his writings, he developed a genealogy of psychology, an account of psychology as a historically developed practice of power. The problem such an account raises for much of traditional philosophy is that Foucault's critique of psychological concepts is ultimately a critique of the idea of the mind as a politically neutral ontological concept. As such, it renders politically suspect all forms of subjective foundationalism, and the epistemological justification for Foucault's own writings is then called into question. Drawing on the writings of such Anglo-American philosophers as Wilfrid Sellars and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Todd May refutes the idea that Foucault's critiques of knowledge, and especially psychological knowledge, undermine themselves.

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Cover of: Between Genealogy and Epistemology
Between Genealogy and Epistemology: Psychology, Politics, and Knowledge in the Thought of Michel Foucault
2010, Pennsylvania State University Press
in English
Cover of: Between Genealogy and Epistemology
Between Genealogy and Epistemology: Psychology, Politics, and Knowledge in the Thought of Michel Foucault
2008, Pennsylvania State University Press
in English
Cover of: Between genealogy and epistemology
Between genealogy and epistemology: psychology, politics, and knowledge in the thought of Michel Foucault
1993, Pennsylvania State University Press, Penn State University Press
in English
Cover of: Between genealogy and epistemology
Between genealogy and epistemology: psychology, politics, and knowledge in the thought of Michel Foucault
1993, Pennsylvania State University Press
in English
Cover of: Between genealogy and epistemology

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-133) and index.

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University Park, Pa

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Dewey Decimal Class
194
Library of Congress
B2430.F724 M39 1993, B2430.F724M39 1993

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Pagination
136 p. ;
Number of pages
136

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Open Library
OL1725356M
ISBN 10
0271009055
LCCN
92029112
OCLC/WorldCat
26553016
LibraryThing
2124267
Goodreads
304046

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OL13332473W

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