Fashionable Foucault?

Authors

  • Valerio Romitelli University of Bologna

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1825-9618/5849

Keywords:

Foucault, Structuralism, Humanism, Antihumanism, Onthology

Abstract

Starting from the consideration that today Michel Foucault's thought is “fashionable” in the more diverse fields of knowledge, the essay invites to rethink the work of the French philosophy. Focusing on a less known part of his writings, Romitelli explores the initial period of Foucault's production, in which History of Madness in the Classical Age of '61 is the main text, together with others among which there is The Order of Things of '66. This phase can be defined as a structuralist and antihumanist one. Addressing, then, the later works, Romitelli analyzes the relationship between thought and politics in Foucault, starting from the concept of «onthology of oneself». Finally, the author sees in this political Foucault the occasion for a politics centred on the present and turned towards renovation.

 

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Published

2015-12-22

How to Cite

Romitelli, V. (2015). Fashionable Foucault?. Scienza & Politica. Per Una Storia Delle Dottrine, 27(53). https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1825-9618/5849

Issue

Vol. 27 No. 53 (2015)

Section

Windward

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