Foucault, Normativity, and Freedom: A Reappraisal.
The aim of this article is to contribute to the recently revived debate over the normativity of Foucault's genealogical method. More specifically, I shall respond to Fraser's charge that Foucault's rejection of humanism is unjustified because he cannot state why a totally panopticized, autonomous so...
| Publicado en: | Foucault Studies no. 27; pp. 23 - 48 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Dec2019
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