Critique As Critical History
by Bregham Dalgliesh /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book presents the first sustained articulation of a
Foucauldian
This book presents the first sustained articulation of a
Foucauldianœuvre
œuvre. It situates Foucault’s critique within
the tradition of Kant’s call for a philosophical archaeology of
reason; in parallel, it demonstrates the priority in Foucault’s
thought of Nietzsche over Heidegger and the framing of reason
against an ontology of power. Bregham Dalgliesh hereby claims
that at the heart of the Foucauldian
. It situates Foucault’s critique within
the tradition of Kant’s call for a philosophical archaeology of
reason; in parallel, it demonstrates the priority in Foucault’s
thought of Nietzsche over Heidegger and the framing of reason
against an ontology of power. Bregham Dalgliesh hereby claims
that at the heart of the Foucauldianœuvre
œuvre is the
philosophical method of critical history. Its task is to make the
will to know that drives thought conscious of itself as a
problem, especially the regimes of truth that define our
governmentalities. By revealing the contingency of their
constituent parts of knowledge, power and ethics, Dalgliesh
demonstrates that critical history offers an alternative mode of
critique to the hithertofore singular reading of the intellectual
heritage of enlightenment, while it fosters an agonistic concept
of freedom in respect of our putatively necessary limits.
is the
philosophical method of critical history. Its task is to make the
will to know that drives thought conscious of itself as a
problem, especially the regimes of truth that define our
governmentalities. By revealing the contingency of their
constituent parts of knowledge, power and ethics, Dalgliesh
demonstrates that critical history offers an alternative mode of
critique to the hithertofore singular reading of the intellectual
heritage of enlightenment, while it fosters an agonistic concept
of freedom in respect of our putatively necessary limits.
