- Paperback: 270 pages
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press; New edition edition (11 Jun 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0226137147
- ISBN-13: 978-0226137148
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Containing the debate between Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky on epistemology and politics, this book also features significant essays by the most important French thinkers who influenced and were influenced by Foucault. Foucault's teachers, colleagues and collaborators take up his major claims, from his first to final works, and provide readers with the authoritative context in which to understand Foucault's writings. The contributors are Georges Canguilhem, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Pierre Hadot, Michel Serres and Paul Veyne. The book also includes several works by Foucault himself which were previously unpublished in English.
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There are a number of collections available incorporating the writing of Foucault's interlocutors, but in my opinion, this really is the best. What makes it so is the editor, AI Davidson, who does a superb job of presenting some absolutely critical texts. Worth the money solely for the Chomsky-Foucault debate, and the comments Canguilhelm made on Foucault's submitted PhD, History of Madness, but really every paper in the book is important. Congratulations to Davidson for his excellent work here.
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An essential survey of the French intellectual tradition
23 Jan 2000
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The timely element of Foucault's works is that he was an inheritor of a tradition in French academia that had less to do with Baudrillard and Lyotard than with the underrated likes of Canguilhem, Bachelard, Dumezil, Veyne and Hadot. Fortunately, Professor Davidson has managed to collect insightful essays on Foucault by his mentors and peers. These essays can be divided into two sets: historical documents and reflections. Of note with respect to the former is Georges Canguilhem's report on Foucault's major thesis, folie and deraison, which is an historical document that reflects both the value of Foucault's initial work as well as a succinct and just summary of the work. Canguilhem supplies two additional essays that summarize the Foucauldian oeuvre. With respect to the latter, of note is Derrida's final remarks on the heated exchanges that occured between him and Foucault about a handful of passages about Descartes and madness.
But perhaps the most outstanding pieces in this collection are from Paul Veyne which provide a penetrating insight into Foucault's historiography (Veyne himself is an eminent historian at the College de France) in addition to a touching memoire that draws the last works of Foucault on ethics with a meditation on death.
Other peers who contribute to this collection include Deleuze (which can be read as an appendix to his own penetrating study of Foucault), Serres, and the great Pierre Hadot (who but Hadot could summarize the key points of the latter two volumes of History of Sexuality any better?)
Finally, the much heralded but hard to find debate between Foucault and Noam Chomsky is included here. Many will find it a great disappointment.
Foucault and his interlocutors is an important survey of Foucault's legacy as well as a way into a side of Foucault that much of American appropriation of his work has failed to grasp: the austere, technical, and historical work that is a continuation of a great French tradition.
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