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Foucault's Critical Project

Name: Foucault's Critical Project
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Between the Transcendental and the Historical

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By Helene Han, Translated by Edward Pile
Imprint: STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: November 5, 2002
Format: PAPERBACK
Dimensions: 229 x 153 mm
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Pages: 256

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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 assesses 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.Given Foucault's constant focus on the (Kantian) question of the possibility for knowledge, the author argues that his philosophical itinerary can be understood as a series of attempts to historicize the transcendental. In so doing, he seeks to uncover a specific level that would identify these conditions without falling either into an excess of idealism (a de-historicized, subject-centered perspective exemplified for Foucault by Husserlian phenomenology) or of materialism (which would amount to interpreting these conditions as ideological and thus as the effect of economic determination by the infrastructure).The author concludes that, although this problem does unify Foucault's work and gives it its specifically philosophical dimension, none of the concepts successively provided (such as the EpistEmE, the historical a priori, the regimes of truth, the games of truth, and problematizations) manages to name these conditions without falling into the pitfalls that Foucault originally denounced as characteristic of the "anthropological sleep"-various forms of confusion between the historical and the transcendental. Although Foucault's work provides us with a highly illuminating analysis of the major problems of post-Kantian philosophies, ultimately it remains aporetic in that it also fails to overcome them.

Beatrice Han is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Essex.

PART I. THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRANSPOSITION OF THE CRITICAL QUESTION AND THE APORIAE OF THE TRANSCENDENTAL THEME 1. The Critique and the Anthropology: The Two Versions of the Transcendental Theme According to Foucault 17 2. The Different Meanings of the Historical a Priori and the Trans- cendental Theme: The Methodological Failure of Archaeology 38 PART II. THE REOPENING OF THE CRITICAL QUESTION: GENEALOGICAL SOLUTIONS AND DIFFICULTIES 3. The Reformulation of the Archaeological Problem and the Genealogical Turn 73 4. The Genealogical Analysis of the Human Sciences and Its Consequences for the Revising of the Critical Question 108 PART III. TRUTH AND SUBJECTIVATION: THE RETROSPECTIVE STAKES OF THE CRITICAL QUESTION Introduction to Part III 149 5. Truth and the Constitution of the Self 152 6. The "History of Subjectivity" and Its Internal Tensions 174

"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, Beatrice Han deciphers Foucault's 'unthought' by means of an attentive confrontation of his work on Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger." - Dominique Janicaud, University of Nice "Han does a commendable job, then, of providing a sympathetic, yet critical, reading of Foucault's philosophical projects. And in the end, this is the particular value and charm of her book: an analysis that never flinches from identifying shortcomings, vagueness, and contradictions in Foucault's arguments, yet shows a reasoned appreciation for the ambitions, insights, and invaluable contributions of his work." - Greg Eghigian, Penn State University

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