Foucault and the Critique of Institutions

Name: Foucault and the Critique of Institutions
Price: 39.95 USD
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ISBN: 9780271029665

ISBN-10: 0271029668

ISBN-13: 9780271029665

Edition: 1993

Authors: John D. Caputo, Mark Yount

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The issue of the institution is not addressed systematically anywhere in the literature on Foucault, although it is everywhere to be found in Foucault's writings. Foucault and the Critique of Institutions not only interprets the work of Foucault but also applies it to the question of the institution. Foucault is a master at analyzing the web of social relations ("power") that effectively shape ("normalize") the modern individual. While these social relations are smaller and finer than institutions, institutions are, by Foucault's account, saturated with such relations. This study is the first sustained account to follow up the implications of Foucault's provocative theses about power for…

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List price: $40.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 4/15/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.03" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Academician John D. Caputo (b.1940) specializes in continental philosophy, described as the interaction among 20th century French and German philosophy and religion. He has written a number of scholarly books including The Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought (1978), Heidegger and Aquinas (1982), Demythologizing Heidegger (1993), Against Ethics (1993), and The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida (1997). Caputo has been honored in Dublin and Toronto, where conferences have been organized around his work. Caputo is professor of philosophy at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, where he received his M.A. in 1964. Other degrees include a B.A. from LaSalle College (1962) and a Ph.D. from… Bryn Mawr (1968).

Mark Yount is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at St. Joseph's University.