Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology

by Foucault, Michel; Faubion, James D.; Hurley, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781565843295
• ISBN10: 1565843290
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-03-01
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

The second volume in the definitive collection of Foucault's shorter writings, a Voice Literary Supplement bestseller. Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology explores one of the lesser known aspects of Foucault's oeuvre. This volume surveys the philosopher's diverse but sustained address of the historical forms and interplay of passion, experience, and truth. These selections, most of which have not previously appeared in English translation, are a testament to the extraordinary range of Foucault's insight. They include commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, Freud, Roussel, and Boulez. They also include some of Foucault's most trenchant reflections on the historical constitution and the historical diagnostics of both the aesthetic and the critical imagination, providing unique insight into the development of Foucault's original and exemplary philosophical program.

Table of Contents

Series Preface	IX	(2)
Paul Rabinow
Acknowledgments	XI	(2)
Introduction	XIII	(32)
James D. Faubion
Note on Terms and Translations	XLV
PART ONE AESTHETICS	3	(244)
The Father's "No"	5	(16)
Speaking and Seeing in Raymond Roussel	21	(12)
Introduction to Rousseau's Dialogues	33	(20)
So Cruel a Knowledge	53	(16)
A Preface to Transgression	69	(20)
Language to Infinity	89	(14)
Afterword to The Temptation of Saint Anthony	103	(20)
The Prose of Actaeon	123	(14)
Behind the Fable	137	(10)
The Thought of the Outside	147	(24)
A Swimmer Between Two Words	171	(4)
Different Spaces	175	(12)
This Is Not a Pipe	187	(18)
What Is an Author?	205	(18)
Sade, Sergeant of Sex	223	(6)
The Gray Mornings of Tolerance	229	(4)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the Everyday Worms	233	(2)
The Imagination of the Nineteenth Century	235	(6)
Pierre Boulez, Passing Through the Screen	241	(6)
PART TWO METHODOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY	247	(232)
Philosophy and Psychology	249	(12)
The Order of Things	261	(8)
Nietzsche, Freud, Marx	269	(10)
On the Ways of Writing History	279	(18)
On the Archaeology of the Sciences: Response to the Epistemology Circle	297	(38)
Madness and Society	335	(8)
Theatrum Philosophicum	343	(26)
Nietzsche, Genealogy, History	369	(24)
My Body, This Paper, This Fire	393	(26)
Return to History	419	(14)
Structuralism and Post-structuralism	433	(26)
Foucault	459	(6)
Life: Experience and Science	465	(14)
Index	479