Kant, Foucault, and Forms of Experience [Hardcover]

This study presents the theoretical apparatus of Foucaults early historical analyses as a version of Kantian criticism. In an initial textual exposition, the author attempts to distill a unified discursive practice from Kants theoretical writings, arguing for Foucaults 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 Foucaults 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 Foucaults practice and Kantian criticism, this study belies this picture.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Foucaults Kantian Enigma

Chapter One: A Standpoint in Kants Critical Philosophy

Chapter Two: Nietzsche and the Critical Need to Wake Up

Chapter Three: The Aim of Criticism in Foucault

Chapter Four: Practices as Forms of Experience

Chapter Five: Literature as a Formal Resource

Conclusion: Contestation and Creating Beings of Thought

Notes

Bibliography

Index

 

 

This study presents the theoretical apparatus of Foucaults early historical analyses as a version of Kantian criticism.

Marc Djaballah (PhD, University of Chicago) is Professeur de philosophie continentale at Universit? de Qu?bec ? Montr?al. He has also taught at Acadia University, Facult? de th?ologie in Montr?al, and at the University of Memphis, where he was Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy in 2005-6.

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