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Foucault and Nietzsche: A Critical Encounter
Contributor(s): Westfall, Joseph (Editor), Rosenberg, Alan (Editor)
ISBN: 1474247393     ISBN-13: 9781474247399
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
OUR PRICE:   $158.40  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: February 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Social
- Philosophy | Political
- Philosophy | Aesthetics
Dewey: 194
LCCN: 2017049074
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.9" W x 9.2" (1.25 lbs) 244 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Modern
 
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Foucault's intellectual indebtedness to Nietzsche is apparent in his writing, yet the precise nature, extent, and nuances of that debt are seldom explored. Foucault himself seems sometimes to claim that his approach is essentially Nietzschean, and sometimes to insist that he amounts to a radical break with Nietzsche. This volume is the first of its kind, presenting the relationship between these two thinkers on elements of contemporary culture that they shared interests in, including the nature of life in the modern world, philosophy as a way of life, and the ways in which we ought to read and write about other philosophers.

The contributing authors are leading figures in Foucault and Nietzsche studies, and their contributions reflect the diversity of approaches possible in coming to terms with the Foucault-Nietzsche relationship. Specific points of comparison include Foucault and Nietzsche's differing understandings of the Death of God; art and aesthetics; power; writing and authorship; politics and society; the history of ideas; genealogy and archaeology; and the evolution of knowledge.


Contributor Bio(s): Westfall, Joseph: - Joseph Westfall is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston-Downtown, USA. He is the author of The Kierkegaardian Author (2007), and co-editor (with Alan Rosenberg) of Foucault and Nietzsche: A Critical Encounter (Bloomsbury, forthcoming).