Hubert L. Dreyfus, Paul Rabinow: Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (1982–) [EN, DE, PT, ES]

This book, which Foucault himself has judged accurate, is the first to provide a sustained, coherent analysis of Foucault’s work as a whole.

To demonstrate the sense in which Foucault’s work is beyond structuralism and hermeneutics, the authors unfold a careful, analytical exposition of his oeuvre. They argue that during the of Foucault’s work became a sustained and largely successful effort to develop a new method—”interpretative analytics”—capable of explaining both the logic of structuralism’s claim to be an objective science and the apparent validity of the hermeneutical counterclaim that the human sciences can proceed only by understanding the deepest meaning of the subject and his tradition.

First published in 1982
Second Edition With an Afterword by and an Interview with Michel Foucault
Publisher University of Chicago Press, 1983
ISBN 0226163121, 9780226163123
256 pages

German edition
Translated by Claus Rath and Ulrich Raulff
Originally published by Athenäum Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1987
Second edition
Publisher Beltz Athenäum Verlag, Weinheim, 1994
ISBN 3895470503
327 pages

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review (Peter Kemp, History and Theory)
review (Tracy B. Strong, Political Theory)
review (Dominick Lacapra, The American Historical Review)
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review (Michael Donnelly, American Journal of Sociology)
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review (Randall McGowen, Comparative Literature)
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Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (English, 1982/1983)
Michel Foucault: Zwischen Strukturalismus und Hermeneutik (German, trans. Claus Rath and Ulrich Raulff, 1987/1994, no OCR)
Foucault. Uma trajetória filosófica. Para além do estruturalismo e da hermenêutica (Portuguese, trans. Vera Porto Carrero, 1995, low-res, no OCR, added on 2014-3-6)
Foucault: más allá del estructuralismo y la hermenéutica (Spanish, trans. Rogelio C. Paredes, 2001, added on 2014-5-27)

Graham Harman: The Quadruple Object (2011)

The book uses a pack of playing cards to present Harman’s metaphysical system of fourfold objects, including human access, Heidegger’s indirect causation, panpsychism and ontography.

In this book the metaphysical system of Graham Harman is presented in lucid form, aided by helpful diagrams.

In Chapter 1, Harman gives his most forceful critique to date of philosophies that reject objects as a primary reality. All such rejections are tainted by either an undermining or overmining approach to objects. In Chapters 2 and 3, he reviews his concepts of sensual and real objects. In the process, he attacks the prestige normally granted to philosophies of human access, which Harman links for the first time to the already discredited Menos Paradox. In Chapters 4 through 7, Harman brings the reader up to speed on his interpretation of Heidegger, which culminates in a fourfold structure of objects linked by indirect causation. In Chapter 8, he speculates on the implications of this theory for the debate over panpsychism, which Harman both embraces and rejects. In Chapters 9 and 10, he introduces the term ontography as the study of the different possible permutations of objects and qualities, which he simplifies with easily remembered terminology drawn from standard playing cards.

Publisher Zero Books, 2011
ISBN 1846947006, 9781846947001
148 pages

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Peter Sloterdijk: Critique Of Cynical Reason (1983/1988)

In 1983, two centuries after the publication of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, another philosophical treatise—polemical in nature, with a title that consciously and disrespectfully alludes to the earlier work—appeared in West Germany. Peter Sloterdijk’s Critique of Cynical Reason stirred both critical acclaim and consternation and attracted a wide readership, especially among those who had come of age in the 1960’s. Sloterdijk’s finds cynicism the dominant mode in contemporary culture, in personal institutional settings; his book is less a history of the impulse than an investigation of its role in the postmodern 1970s and 1980s, among those whose earlier hopes for social change had crumbled and faded away. Sloterdijk thus brings into cultural and political discourse an issue which, though central to the mood of a generation, has remained submerged throughout the current debate about modernity and postmodernity.

With Adorno and Horkeimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment as his primary jumping-off point, Sloterdijk also draws upon, and contends with, the poststructuralist concepts of Deleuze and Guattari. He defines cynicism as enlightened false consciousness—a sensibility “well off and miserable at the same time,” able to function in the workaday world yet assailed by doubt and paralysis; and, as counterstrategy, proposes the cynicism of antiquity—the sensuality and loud, satiric laughter of Diogenes. Above all, Sloterdijk is determined to resist the amnesia inherent in cynicism. The twentieth-century German historical experience lies behind his work, which closes with a brilliant essay on the Weimar Republic—the fourteen years between a lost war and Hitler’s ascent to power, and a time when the cynical mode first achieved cultural dominance.

Originally published as Kritik der zynischen Vernunft, 2 vols, 1983 by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main
Translated by Michael Eldred
Foreword by Andreas Huyssen
Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 1988
Volume 40 of Theory and History of Literature
ISBN 0816615861, 9780816615865
600 pages

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