Kant, Foucault, and Forms of Experience

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Contemporary Literary Discourse
critical philosophy
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Foucault's Analysis
Foucault's Appeal
Foucault's Critical Attitude
Foucault's Exposition
Foucault's Historical Account
Foucault's Historical Analyses
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Foucault’s Practice
Foucault’s Reading
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Foucault’s Studies
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Jules Lachelier
Kant's Critical Attitude
Kant's Critical Philosophy
Kant's Criticism
Kant's Practice
Kant's Role
Kant's Texts
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Kantian critique in Foucault studies
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  • ISBN 9780415956246
  • Weight: 820g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Apr 2008
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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This study presents the theoretical apparatus of Foucault’s early historical analyses as a version of Kantian criticism. In an initial textual exposition, the author attempts to distill a unified discursive practice from Kant’s theoretical writings, arguing for Foucault’s proximity to Kant on the basis of this reconstruction, by showing that his studies are modeled on this way of thinking. By recasting it in this framework, an unorthodox version of Foucault’s work is generated, one that is at odds with the tendency to emphasize a certain skepticism about the possibility of universal and necessary knowledge in his writings, and to mistake it for irrationalism and a hostility to the practice of theory. By drawing attention to the structural parallel between Foucault’s practice and Kantian criticism, this study belies this picture.

Marc Djaballah (PhD, University of Chicago) is Professeur de philosophie continentale at Université de Québec à Montréal. He has also taught at Acadia University, Faculté de théologie in Montréal, and at the University of Memphis, where he was Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy in 2005-6.

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