Foucault's Critical Project: Between the Transcendental and the Historical
“This is a brilliant book that shows an admirable mastery of all the relevant texts—including the interviews—and proceeds to problematize Foucault’s work at its deepest level, i.e., its ontology of the order of the world and of the constitution of the subject.”—Hubert Dreyfus, University of California, Berkeley\ “In this masterpiece of philosophical interpretation, Béatrice Han deciphers Foucault’s ‘unthought’ by means of an attentive confrontation of his work on Kant, Nietzsche, and...
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This book uncovers and explores the constant tension between the historical and the transcendental that lies at the heart of Michel Foucault’s work. In the process, it also addresses the philosophical foundations of his thought by examining his theoretical borrowings from Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, who each provided him with tools to critically rethink the status of the transcendental.
ForewordList of AbbreviationsPeriodization of Foucault's BooksIntroduction1Pt. IThe Archaeological Transposition of the Critical Question and the Aporiae of the Transcendental Theme1The Critique and the Anthropology: The Two Versions of the Transcendental Theme According to Foucault172The Different Meanings of the Historical a Priori and the Transcendental Theme: The Methodological Failure of Archaeology38Pt. IIThe Reopening of the Critical Question: Genealogical Solutions and Difficulties3The Reformulation of the Archaeological Problem and the Genealogical Turn734The Genealogical Analysis of the Human Sciences and Its Consequences for the Revising of the Critical Question108Pt. IIITruth and Subjectivation: The Retrospective Stakes of the Critical Question5Truth and the Constitution of the Self1526The "History of Subjectivity" and Its Internal Tensions174Conclusion188Notes199Index235
