Foucault&#039;s Critical Philosophy of History

Adam Takács

doi:10.5771/9781793651204

Summary

Foucault's Critical Philosophy of History: Unfolding the Present provides a comprehensive interpretation of Foucault’s work by focusing on its methodological, procedural, and epistemological elements. Adam Takács argues that despite all its thematic and analytical diversity, Foucault’s procedure can be understood within a unified framework based on the historical problematization of the present. This procedure, triggered by current social issues and aiming at a diagnostic screening of the present through a constructive exploration of the past, thus sets in motion not only a specific philosophical vision of history and a research practice often related to the procedures of historiography, but also new ways of critical analysis of social phenomena. This book subjects all these elements to a systematic analysis, demonstrating that within this framework, Foucault’s often debated views on historical realism and constructivism—his methodological choices and ontological commitments—take on a coherent profile, culminating in a timely social critical project of “liberation of knowledge” and “political subjectivation.”

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-5119-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-5120-4
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 168
Product type: Book Titles

1. List of Abbreviations for Foucault’s Texts No access
1. Notes No access
1. The Problem of the Historical Present: An Overview No access
2. Foucault’s Philosophy of History as the “History of the Present” No access
3. Unfolding the Present: Diagnosis, Discontinuity, and Distance No access
4. Historiographical Operation and Methodology No access
5. Notes No access
1. The Object of History and the Historical Objects No access
2. The Positivity of the Past No access
3. Historical Reality and Historical Relations No access
4. Notes No access
1. From Documents to Monuments: Toward a Constructive Historical Thinking No access
2. Framing the Past: The Times of History No access
3. The Names of History: Foucault’s Historical Nominalism No access
4. Notes No access
1. Historical Condition and Indirect Ontology No access
2. Foucault’s Critique of Phenomenology No access
3. Foucault’s Philosophy of Existence: Discourse, Being, and History No access
4. Models of Existence: The Subject in Historical-Ontological Context No access
5. Notes No access
1. History of Present as Critique of the Present No access
2. What Is a Diagnostic Historical Critique? No access
3. The Object of the Critique: Liberating Knowledge No access
4. Historical Critique and Political Subjectivation No access
5. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 153 - 160
Index No access Pages 161 - 166
About the Author No access Pages 167 - 168