Foucault and The Writing of History Paperback - 1994
by Goldstein, Jan [Editor]
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Details
- Title Foucault and The Writing of History
- Author Goldstein, Jan [Editor]
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford
- Date 1994-07-19
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 2204220031
- ISBN 9780631170082 / 0631170081
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.67 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.70 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Modern
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93-39185
- Dewey Decimal Code 194
From the rear cover
Scholars from the United States, France and Italy, including historians, sociologists, an anthropologist and a philosopher, range over the full complement of Foucault's writing - on eros and the family in classical antiquity, the constitution of the self, the history of science and sexuality, and the origins of the liberal state. But, true to its subject, this book does not conceive of history divorced from philosophy: it explores how Foucault's understanding of the past relates to his ideas of truth, ethics, knowledge and action, and seeks above all to explain and to assess the subversive and liberating value of, and the possible distortions inherent in, Foucault's notion of "genealogy", his substitute for history in its traditional guise.
The authors examine and explicate Foucault's writings, and apply them to the interpretation of different cultures - to the nature, for instance, of desire and sexual identity in late antiquity - and of events, to adopting a Foucauldian perspective to arrive at radically different interpretations of the French Revolution. Others question Foucault's factual selectivity or economy with the truth - in relation, for example, to homosexuality among the Romans. All in all, however, the book offers a series of mind-opening perspectives on Foucault's work, on the past - and on the present.