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Cambridge University Press 0521840821 - The Cambridge Companion to Foucault, Second Edition Edited by Gary Gutting Frontmatter More information the cambridge companion to FOUCAULT SecondEdition Each volume of this series of companions to major philoso- pherscontainsspeciallycommissionedessaysbyaninterna- tionalteamofscholarstogetherwithasubstantialbibliogra- phy.Oneaimoftheseriesistomaketheworkofadifficult and challenging thinker accessible to students and nonspe- cialists. For Michel Foucault, philosophy was a way of question- ing the allegedly necessary truths that underpin the prac- tices and institutions of modern society. Unlike Kant, who triedtodeterminetheaprioriboundariesofhumanknowl- edge,Foucaultaimedatrevealingthehistoricalcontingency ofideasthatpresentthemselvesasnecessary,unsurpassable truths.Hecarriedoutthisprojectinaseriesofdeeplyoriginal andstrikinglycontroversialstudiesontheoriginsofmodern medicalandsocialscientificdisciplines.Thesestudieshave raisedfundamentalphilosophicalquestionsaboutthenature of human knowledge and its relation to power structures, andhavebecomemajortopicsofdiscussionthroughoutthe humanitiesandsocialsciences. Theessaysinthisvolumeprovideasystematicandcom- prehensive overview of Foucault’s major themes and texts, from his early work on madness through his history of sex- uality. Special attention is also paid to thinkers and move- ments, from Kant through current feminist theory, that are particularly important for understanding his work and its impact. This revised edition contains five new essays and revisionsofmanyothers.Theextensivebibliographyofpri- maryandsecondarysourceshasbeenupdated. Gary Gutting holds the Notre Dame Chair in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author, most recently,ofFoucault:AVeryShortIntroductionandFrench Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, and is founder and editorofNotreDamePhilosophicalReviews. © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521840821 - The Cambridge Companion to Foucault, Second Edition Edited by Gary Gutting Frontmatter More information cambridge companions to philosophy volumes in the series of cambridge companions: ABELARD Editedbyjeffrey e. brower and kevin guilfoy ADORNO Editedbytom hunn AQUINAS Editedbynorman kretzmann and eleonore stump HANNAH ARENDT Editedbydana villa ARISTOTLE Editedbyjonathan barnes AUGUSTINE Editedbyeleonore stump and norman kretzmann BACON Editedbymarkku peltonen SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Editedbyclaudia card DARWIN Editedbyjonathan hodge and gregory radick DESCARTES Editedbyjohn cottingham DUNS SCOTUS Editedbythomas williams EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY Editedbya. a. long FEMINISM IN PHILOSOPHY Editedbymiranda fricker andjennifer hornsby FREUD Editedbyjerome neu GADAMER Editedbyrobert j. dostal GALILEO Editedbypeter machamer GERMAN IDEALISM Editedbykarl ameriks GREEK AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHY Editedby david sedley HABERMAS Editedbystephen k. white HEGEL Editedbyfrederick beiser HEIDEGGER Editedbycharles guignon HOBBES Editedbytom sorell HUME Editedbydavid fate norton HUSSERL Editedbybarry smith and david woodruff smith WILLIAM JAMES Editedbyruth anna putnam KANT Editedbypaul guyer KIERKEGAARD Editedbyalastair hannay and gordon marino LEIBNIZ Editedbynicholas jolley © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521840821 - The Cambridge Companion to Foucault, Second Edition Edited by Gary Gutting Frontmatter More information LEVINAS Editedbysimon critchley and robert bernasconi LOCKE Editedbyvere chappell MALEBRANCHE Editedbysteven nadler MARX Editedbyterrell carver MEDIEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHY Editedby daniel h. frank andoliver leaman MEDIEVALPHILOSOPHY Editedbya. s. mcgrade MILL Editedbyjohn skorupski NEWTON Editedbyi. bernard cohen and george e. smith NIETZSCHE Editedbybernd magnus and kathleen higgins OCKHAM Editedbypaul vincent spade PASCAL Editedbynicholas hammond PEIRCE Editedbycheri misak PLATO Editedbyrichard kraut PLOTINUS Editedbylloyd p. gerson QUINE Editedbyroger f. gibson RAWLS Editedbysamuel freeman THOMAS REID Editedbyterence cuneo and rene´ vanwoudenberg ROUSSEAU Editedbypatrick riley BERTRAND RUSSELL Editedbynicholas griffin SARTRE Editedbychristina howells SCHOPENHAUER Editedbychristopher janaway THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT Editedby alexander broadie SPINOZA Editedbydon garrett THE STOICS Editedbybrad inwood WITTGENSTEIN Editedbykans sluga and david stern © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521840821 - The Cambridge Companion to Foucault, Second Edition Edited by Gary Gutting Frontmatter More information The Cambridge Companion to FOUCAULT Second Edition Edited by Gary Gutting UniversityofNotreDame © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521840821 - The Cambridge Companion to Foucault, Second Edition Edited by Gary Gutting Frontmatter More information cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo CambridgeUniversityPress 40West20thStreet,NewYork,ny10011-4211,usa www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521840828 (cid:1)C CambridgeUniversityPress2005 Thisbookisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithout thewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2005 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData TheCambridgecompaniontoFoucault/editedbyGaryGutting–2nded. p. cm.–(Cambridgecompanionstophilosophy) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn0-521-84082-1–isbn0-521-60053-7(pbk.) 1.Foucault,Michel. I.Gutting,Gary. II.Title. III.Series. b2430.f724c36 2006 194–dc22 2005005777 isbn-13 978-0-521-84082-8hardback isbn-10 0-521-84082-1hardback isbn-13 978-0-521-60053-8paperback isbn-10 0-521-60053-7paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityfor thepersistenceoraccuracyofurlsforexternalor third-partyInternetWebsitesreferredtointhisbook anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch Websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521840821 - The Cambridge Companion to Foucault, Second Edition Edited by Gary Gutting Frontmatter More information contents Contributors pageix Preface to the Second Edition xiii Biographical Chronology xvii Introduction Michel Foucault: A User’s Manual 1 gary gutting 1. Foucault’s Mapping of History 29 thomas flynn 2. Foucault and the History of Madness 49 gary gutting 3. The Death of Man, or Exhaustion of the Cogito? 74 georges canguilhem translated by catherine porter 4. Power/Knowledge 95 joseph rouse 5. Ethics as Ascetics: Foucault, the History of Ethics, and Ancient Thought 123 arnold i. davidson 6. Michel Foucault’s Ethical Imagination 149 james w. bernauer and michael mahon vii © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521840821 - The Cambridge Companion to Foucault, Second Edition Edited by Gary Gutting Frontmatter More information viii Contents 7. The Analytic of Finitude and the History of Subjectivity 176 be´atrice han translated by edward pile 8. Foucault’s Encounter with Heidegger and Nietzsche 210 hans sluga 9. Foucault and Habermas 240 david ingram 10. Foucault’s Relation to Phenomenology 284 todd may 11. Against Interiority: Foucault’s Struggle with Psychoanalysis 312 joel whitebook 12. Foucault’s Modernism 348 gerald l. bruns 13. Queering Foucault and the Subject of Feminism 379 jana sawicki Bibliography 401 Addendum to Bibliography, 1993–2005 435 Index 455 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521840821 - The Cambridge Companion to Foucault, Second Edition Edited by Gary Gutting Frontmatter More information contributors jamesw.bernauerisprofessorofphilosophyatBostonCollege.He istheauthorofMichelFoucault’sForceofFlight:TowardanEthics for Thought. He is the editor of Amor Mundi: Explorations in the FaithandThoughtofHannahArendtand,withDavidRasmussen, coeditorofTheFinalFoucault.Hismostrecentbookiscoeditedwith JeremyCarrette:MichelFoucaultandTheology:ThePoliticsofRe- ligiousExperience.HiscurrentprojectusesFoucauldianapproaches inastudyofGermanmoralformationontheeveoftheHolocaust. gerald l. bruns istheWilliamP.andHazelB.WhiteProfessorof English at the University of Notre Dame. His most recent book is TheMaterialofPoetry:SketchesforaPhilosophicalPoetics. arnold i. davidson edited and wrote an introduction to Pierre Hadot’s Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault and is coeditor of Questions of Evidence. His mostrecentbookisTheEmergenceofSexuality:HistoricalEpiste- mology and the Formation of Concepts. He is the executive editor ofthejournalCriticalInquiry. thomas flynnisSamuelCandlerDobbsProfessorofPhilosophyat EmoryUniversity.HeistheauthorofSartreandMarxistExistential- ism and Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason, vol. 1: Toward an ExistentialistTheoryofHistory;vol.2:APoststructuralistMapping ofHistory. gary gutting holds the Notre Dame Chair in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Foucault: A Very Short Introduction, French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, Pragmatic Liberalism and the Critique of Modernity, and Michel ix © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521840821 - The Cambridge Companion to Foucault, Second Edition Edited by Gary Gutting Frontmatter More information x Contributors Foucault’sArchaeologyofScientificReason.Heisfounderandeditor of Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, an electronic book-review journal(http://ndpr.nd.edu/). be´atrice han studied philosophy at the E´cole normale supe´rieure and at the Sorbonne. She is now a reader in philosophy at the Uni- versityofEssex.SheistheauthorofFoucault’sCriticalProject:Be- tween the Transcendental and the Historical and of many articles onFoucault,Nietzsche,andHeidegger.Sheiscurrentlyworkingon abookentitledTranscendenceWithoutReligion. david ingram is professor of philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. His books on critical theory include Habermas and the Dialectic of Reason; Critical Theory and Philosophy; Reason, His- tory,andPolitics;andRights,Democracy,andFulfillmentintheEra ofIdentityPolitics. michaelmahonisassociateprofessorofhumanitiesatBostonUni- versity’sCollegeofGeneralStudies. todd may is professor of philosophy at Clemson University. His writings primarily concern contemporary French philosophy, espe- ciallyMichelFoucaultandGillesDeleuze.Hismostrecentbookis GillesDeleuze:AnIntroduction. catherine porter is visiting professor at Cornell University and Professor of French Emerita at the State University of New York College at Cortland, where she chaired the Department of Interna- tionalCommunicationsandCulture.Shehastranslatedovertwenty- fiveworksofcontemporaryFrenchnonfictionintheareasofliterary theory and criticism, philosophy, psychoanalysis, history, and soci- ology,includingbooksbyTzvetanTodorov,ShoshanaFelman,Luce Irigaray,SarahKofman,Ge´rardGenette,DenisHollier,LouisMarin, andBrunoLatour.ForthcomingtranslationsincludeOnJustification byLucBoltanskiandLaurentThe´venot. joseph rouse istheHeddingProfessorofMoralScienceandChair oftheScienceinSocietyProgramatWesleyanUniversity.Heisthe author of How Scientific Practices Matter: Reclaiming Philosophi- calNaturalism;EngagingScience:HowtoUnderstandItsPractices © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org
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