Foucault and Social Dialogue; Beyond Fragmentation is a compelling yet extremely clear investigation of these options and offers a new way forward. Christopher Falzon argues that the proper alternative to foundationalism is not fragmentation but dialogue and that such a dialogical picture can be found in the work of Michel Foucault. Such a reading of Foucault allows us to see, for the first time, the ethical and political position implicit in Foucault's work and how his work contributes to the larger debate concerning the death of man.
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A major achievement. It is unusually clear and its arguments are expressed subtly and cogently. The picture of Foucault that emerges is a compelling one
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In this book, Australian philospher Chris Falzon very clearly lays out the Foucaultian rejection of the metaphysical subject, the God-like transcendental subject that is suppose to provide the ultimate grounds for knowledge and action. Falzon argues that such rejection does not automatically lead to fragmentation as Habermas claimed. Rather the true postmodern path is the notion of dialogue, an ongoing encounter with the other. A superb introduction to Foucault's philosophy and postmodernism in general.
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In this chapter, after questioning the claim that the alternative to foundationalist metaphysics is relativistic fragmentation, and arguing that the fragmentation view is in fact a continuation of metaphysics, I will go on to consider some of the problems associated with metaphysical accounts of the world in whatever form they appear. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dialogical picture, totalising thinking, totalising metaphysics, metaphysical subjectivism, relativistic fragmentation, fragmentation vision, subjectivist metaphysics, totalising thought, ruling categories, dialogical ethics, corporeal history, creative transgression, humanist metaphysics, corporeal forces, dialogical interplay, foundational subject, organising categories, dialogical account, dialogical view, historical dialogue, fundamental encounter, foundational self, dialogical conception, ideal dialogue, prevailing categories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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In this chapter, after questioning the claim that the alternative to foundationalist metaphysics is relativistic fragmentation, and arguing that the fragmentation view is in fact a continuation of metaphysics, I will go on to consider some of the problems associated with metaphysical accounts of the world in whatever form they appear. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dialogical picture, totalising thinking, totalising metaphysics, metaphysical subjectivism, relativistic fragmentation, fragmentation vision, subjectivist metaphysics, totalising thought, ruling categories, dialogical ethics, corporeal history, creative transgression, humanist metaphysics, corporeal forces, dialogical interplay, foundational subject, organising categories, dialogical account, dialogical view, historical dialogue, fundamental encounter, foundational self, dialogical conception, ideal dialogue, prevailing categories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Knowledge & Human Interests by Juergen Habermas on 5 pages
- The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language by Michel Foucault on 4 pages
- Habermas: Critical Debates by Jurgen Habermas on 4 pages
- The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault on 4 pages
- Foucault: A Critical Reader (Blackwell Critical Reader) by David Hoy in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Living Truth and Truthful Living: Christian Faith and the Scalpel of Suspicion (Atf Dissertation Series) by Winifred Wing Han Lamb on 7 pages
- Foucault, Christianity and Interfaith Dialogue (Routledge Studies in Religion) by Henrique Pinto on 5 pages
- Michel Foucault and Theology: The Politics of Religious Experience by James William Bernauer on 5 pages
- Rationality, Hermeneutics And Dialogue: Toward A Viable Postfoundationalist Account Of Rationality (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy) by Paul Healy on page 84, page 86, and Back Matter
- Subjectivity (The New Critical Idiom) by Donald E. Hall on page 95, and Back Matter
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