Maturity and Modernity: Nietzsche, Weber, Foucault and the Ambivalence of Reason [Hardcover]

Maturity and Modernity is the first book to analyze Nietzsche, Weber and Foucault as a tradition of theorising and to chart the development of genealogy as a mode of critique. It provides clear accounts of the main ideas of Nietzsche, Weber and Foucault (as well as a useful Glossary) and illustrates the relations between these thinkers at methodological, substantive and politcal levels.The first book to analyze Nietzsche, Weber and Foucault as a tradition of theorizing and to chart the development of genealogy as a mode of critique. It provides clear accounts of all three thinkers and illustrates their interrelations.Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Kant and the Question of Maturity; Chapter 3 The Transformation of Critique; Chapter 4 The Genealogy of Modernity; Chapter 5 The Politics of the ?bermensch; Chapter 6 Genealogy as Cultural Science; Chapter 7 The Genealogy of Modernity; Chapter 8 The Politics of 'Personality'; Chapter 9 Genealogy as Historical Ontology; Chapter 10 The Genealogy of Modernity; Chapter 11 The Politics of Critique; Chapter 12 Conclusion;US? 1994 David Owen