Foucault And Heidegger: Critical Encounters

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Foucault And Heidegger: Critical Encounters
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Alan Milchman
Contributions by Alan Rosenberg
SeriesContradictions of Modernity
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:376
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 149
Category/GenreBiographies and autobiography
Western philosophy from c 1900 to now
ISBN/Barcode 9780816633791
ClassificationsDewey:193
Audience
General
Undergraduate

Publishing Details

Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Imprint University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date 12 June 2003
Publication Country United States

Description

An essential consideration of these two closely related and influential figures. Michel Foucault and Martin Heidegger are two of the most important intellectual figures of the twentieth century, and yet there are significant, largely unexplored questions about the relationship between their projects. Foucault and Heidegger stages a crucial critical encounter between these two thinkers; in doing so, it clarifies not only the complexities of the Heidegger-Foucault relationship, but also their relevance to questions about truth and nihilism, acquiescence and resistance, and technology and agency that are central to debates in contemporary thought. These essays examine topics ranging from Heidegger's and Foucault's intellectual forebears to their respective understanding of the Enlightenment, modernity, and technology, to their conceptions of power and the political.