Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom (Modernity and Political Thought) download ebook

Among the hundreds of books and articles on Foucault, only a handful make for genuinely rewarding reading

Among the hundreds of books and articles on Foucault, only a handful make for genuinely rewarding reading. Thomas L. Dumm's Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom is a welcome addition to that handful, for it treats Foucault with the subtlety his thought deserves and demands, but almost never receives

In this study, Thomas Dumm challenges the conventions that have governed discussions and debates concerning modern freedom by bringing the work of Michel Foucault into dialogue with contemporary liberal thought.

In this study, Thomas Dumm challenges the conventions that have governed discussions and debates concerning modern freedom by bringing the work of Michel Foucault into dialogue with contemporary liberal thought. While Foucault has been widely understood to have characterized the modern era as being opposed to the realization of freedom.

In this study, Thomas Dumm challenges the conventions that have governed discussions and deb. as an introduction to Foucault and as an intervention in liberal theory, Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom is bound to change how we think about the limits and possibilities of freedom in late modernity. To read this book, upload an EPUB or FB2 file to Bookmate. How do I upload a book?

Students in political science, political theory, and comparative politics will find Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom insightful, stimulating, as well as thought provoking. Among the hundreds of books and articles on Foucault, only a handful makes genuinely rewarding reading.

Students in political science, political theory, and comparative politics will find Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom insightful, stimulating, as well as thought provoking. Dumm's Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom is a welcome addition to that handful, for it treats Foucault with the subtlety his thought deserves and demands but almost never receives.

Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom (ebook). Dumm (Auteur). What is freedom? In this study, Thomas Dumm challenges the conventions that have governed discussions and debates concerning modern freedom by bringing the work of Michel Foucault into dialogue with contemporary liberal thought Lire la suite.

Modernity and Political Thought. Michel Foucault has long been considered one of the most powerful critics of modern civilization. In contrast, Thomas L Dumm reads Foucault as a philosopher of freedom. By (author) Thomas L. Dumm. He is especially noted for his analysis of power which many readers claim is an absolute rejection of modernity as unfree. Dumm shows how Foucault connects the constitution of space with various practices of freedom.

The history of political thought dates back to antiquity while the political history of the world and thus the history of political thinking by man stretches up through the Medieval period and the Renaissance.

The question of Foucault’s overall political stance remains hotly contested. Scholars disagree both on the level of consistency of his position over his career, and the particular position he could be said to have taken at any particular time. This dispute is common both to scholars critical of Foucault and to those who are sympathetic to his thought.

Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. Le retour de la morale.

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