The Politics of the Order of Things: Foucault, Sartre, and Deleuze
Foucault's histories are typically aimed at what he regarded as intolerable political consequences of knowledge-based disciplines such as psychiatry and medicine. But The Order of Things is hard to fit into this pattern. What are the intolerable political consequences of the metaphysical and ep...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Wiley
[2016]
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History and theory
Année: 2016, Volume: 55, Numéro: 4, Pages: 54-65 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
The Order of Things
B Deleuze B Political B Sartre B Foucault B Humanism |
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| Résumé: | Foucault's histories are typically aimed at what he regarded as intolerable political consequences of knowledge-based disciplines such as psychiatry and medicine. But The Order of Things is hard to fit into this pattern. What are the intolerable political consequences of the metaphysical and epistemological “humanism” the book attacks? To answer this question, I discuss Foucault's attitude toward Sartre and Deleuze, neither mentioned in The Order of Things but both of central importance for understanding its political significance. My conclusion is that the book fails as a political critique of Sartre (and political humanism in general) and instead expresses Foucault's personal ethical preference for Deleuzian limit experiences. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-2303 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: History and theory
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/hith.10828 |