Foucault and The Writing of History by Jan Goldstein (English) Paperback Book

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This is the first book to assess Foucault's importance for the understanding and writing of history. It ranges across the entire spectrum of Foucault's work - antiquity, genealogies of culture, the self and subject, madness, the state and sexuality.

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This volume is the first to address Foucault's influence and the potential of his work in the understanding and the writing of history. It does so critically and accessibly. Scholars from the United States, France and Italy, including historians, sociologists, an anthropogist and a philosopher, range over Foucault's writing - on love and the family in classical antiquity, the constitution of the self, the history of science and sexuality, to the origins of the liberal state. But, true to its subject, this book does not conceive of history divorced from philosophy: it explores how Foucault's understanding of the past relates to his ideas of truth, ethics, knowledge and action. All-in-all, the book offers a series of mind-opening perspectives on Foucault's work, on the past, and on the present.

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Michel Foucault is perhaps the most mysterious and certainly among the most influential of twentieth-century thinkers. Although he trained as a philosopher, his writings were almost entirely in the domain of history: fields he sought to combine and, in every sense, to "de-discipline". Yet Foucault's readers have consistently singled out his philosophy for intensive discussion. This volume is the first to address his influence and the potential of his work in the understanding and the writing of history. It does so critically and accessibly. Scholars from the United States, France and Italy, including historians, sociologists, an anthropologist and a philosopher, range over the full complement of Foucault's writing - on eros and the family in classical antiquity, the constitution of the self, the history of science and sexuality, and the origins of the liberal state. But, true to its subject, this book does not conceive of history divorced from philosophy: it explores how Foucault's understanding of the past relates to his ideas of truth, ethics, knowledge and action, and seeks above all to explain and to assess the subversive and liberating value of, and the possible distortions inherent in, Foucault's notion of "genealogy", his substitute for history in its traditional guise. The authors examine and explicate Foucault's writings, and apply them to the interpretation of different cultures - to the nature, for instance, of desire and sexual identity in late antiquity - and of events, to adopting a Foucauldian perspective to arrive at radically different interpretations of the French Revolution. Others question Foucault's factual selectivity or economy with the truth - in relation, for example, to homosexuality among the Romans. All in all, however, the book offers a series of mind-opening perspectives on Foucault's work, on the past - and on the present.

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Michel Foucault is perhaps the most mysterious and certainly among the most influential of twentieth-century thinkers. Although he trained as a philosopher, his writings were almost entirely in the domain of history: fields he sought to combine and, in every sense, to "de-discipline". Yet Foucault's readers have consistently singled out his philosophy for intensive discussion. This volume is the first to address his influence and the potential of his work in the understanding and the writing of history. It does so critically and accessibly. Scholars from the United States, France and Italy, including historians, sociologists, an anthropologist and a philosopher, range over the full complement of Foucault's writing - on eros and the family in classical antiquity, the constitution of the self, the history of science and sexuality, and the origins of the liberal state. But, true to its subject, this book does not conceive of history divorced from philosophy: it explores how Foucault's understanding of the past relates to his ideas of truth, ethics, knowledge and action, and seeks above all to explain and to assess the subversive and liberating value of, and the possible distortions inherent in, Foucault's notion of "genealogy", his substitute for history in its traditional guise. The authors examine and explicate Foucault's writings, and apply them to the interpretation of different cultures - to the nature, for instance, of desire and sexual identity in late antiquity - and of events, to adopting a Foucauldian perspective to arrive at radically different interpretations of the French Revolution. Others question Foucault's factual selectivity or economy with the truth - in relation, for example, to homosexuality among the Romans. All in all, however, the book offers a series of mind-opening perspectives on Foucault's work, on the past - and on the present.

Author Biography

Jan Goldstein is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Chicago where she is also a member of the committee on the conceptual foundations of science.

Table of Contents

1. A Foucauldian French Revolution: Keith Baker (Stanford University) 2. Problematization as a Mode of Reading History: Robert Castel 3. The Chimera of the Origin: Archaeology, Cultural History, and the French Revolution: Roger Chartier (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, France) 4. Foucault, the History of Ethics and Ancient Thought: Arnold Davidson (University of Chicago) 5. The History of Medicine According to Foucault; Francois Delaparte (Cite Universitaire) 6. Combined Inderdevelopment: Discipline and the Law in Imperial and Soviet Russia: Laura Engelstein (Princeton University) 7. Foucault and the Post Revolutionary Self: Jan Goldstein (University of Chicago) 8. Historicizing the Subject of Desire: David Halperin (MIT) 9. Kant Foucault and Three Women: Carla Hesse (University of California) 10. Onanism, Sociability and the Imagination: Thomas Laquer (University of California) 11. Love and Reproductive Biology in fin-de-siecle France A Foucauldian Lacuna: Robert Nye (University of Oklahoma) 12. Governing Poverty: The Social Question in France: Giovanni Procacci 13. Assymetry in the Stylistics of Roman Marriage: Richard Saller (University of Chicago) 14. Foucault and the Freudian Subject: John Toews (University of Washington)

Review

"This book cuts a set of trails through Foucault and History, and mostly on European terrain; but there are other paths. It offers some new and important perspectives on Foucault's tangled relationship with his historical materials, and is also valuable because it sketches some of the cutting-edge debates and tensions in the discipline of history." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

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Michel Foucault is perhaps the most mysterious and certainly among the most influential of twentieth-century thinkers. Although he trained as a philosopher, his writings were almost entirely in the domain of history: fields he sought to combine and, in every sense, to "de-discipline". Yet Foucaults readers have consistently singled out his philosophy for intensive discussion. This volume is the first to address his influence and the potential of his work in the understanding and the writing of history. It does so critically and accessibly. Scholars from the United States, France and Italy, including historians, sociologists, an anthropologist and a philosopher, range over the full complement of Foucaults writing - on eros and the family in classical antiquity, the constitution of the self, the history of science and sexuality, and the origins of the liberal state. But, true to its subject, this book does not conceive of history divorced from philosophy: it explores how Foucaults understanding of the past relates to his ideas of truth, ethics, knowledge and action, and seeks above all to explain and to assess the subversive and liberating value of, and the possible distortions inherent in, Foucaults notion of "genealogy", his substitute for history in its traditional guise. The authors examine and explicate Foucaults writings, and apply them to the interpretation of different cultures - to the nature, for instance, of desire and sexual identity in late antiquity - and of events, to adopting a Foucauldian perspective to arrive at radically different interpretations of the French Revolution. Others question Foucaults factual selectivity or economy with the truth - in relation, for example, to homosexuality among the Romans. All in all, however, the book offers a series of mind-opening perspectives on Foucaults work, on the past - and on the present.

Review Text

"This book cuts a set of trails through Foucault and History, and mostly on European terrain; but there are other paths. It offers some new and important perspectives on Foucault's tangled relationship with his historical materials, and is also valuable because it sketches some of the cutting-edge debates and tensions in the discipline of history." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

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"This book cuts a set of trails through Foucault and History, and mostly on European terrain; but there are other paths. It offers some new and important perspectives on Foucault's tangled relationship with his historical materials, and is also valuable because it sketches some of the cutting-edge debates and tensions in the discipline of history." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

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* This is the first book to assess Foucault's importance for the understanding and writing of history. * It ranges across the entire spectrum of Foucault's work - antiquity, genealogies of culture, the self and subject, madness, the state and sexuality.* This is the first book to assess Foucault's importance for the understanding and writing of history. * It ranges across the entire spectrum of Foucault's work - antiquity, genealogies of culture, the self and subject, madness, the state and sexuality.

Details ISBN0631170081 Year 1994 ISBN-10 0631170081 ISBN-13 9780631170082 Format Paperback Publication Date 1994-05-17 Edited by Jan Goldstein DEWEY 907.2 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd Language English Media Book Edition 1st Illustrations black & white illustrations Short Title FOUCAULT & THE WRITING OF HIST DOI 10.1604/9780631170082 UK Release Date 1994-05-17 AU Release Date 1994-05-17 NZ Release Date 1994-05-17 US Release Date 1994-05-17 Author Jan Goldstein Pages 320 Imprint Wiley-Blackwell Place of Publication Hoboken Audience Undergraduate Country of Publication United Kingdom We've got this

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