Foucault’s Critical Project: Between the Transcendental and the Historical (Atopia: Philosophy, Political Theory, Ae)

Béatrice Han deciphers Foucault’s ‘unthought’ by means of an attentive confrontation of his work on Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger The Archaeological Transposition Of The Critical Question And The Aporiae Of The Transcendental Theme -- The Critique And The Anthropology: The Two Versions Of The Transcendental Theme According To Foucault -- The Different Meanings Of The Historical A Priori And The Transcendental Theme: The Methodological Failure Of Archaeology -- The Reopening Of The Critical Question: Genealogical Solutions And Difficulties -- The Reformulation Of The Archaeological Problem And The Genealogical Turn -- The Genealogical Analysis Of The Human Sciences And Its Consequences For The Revising Of The Critical Question -- Truth And Subjectivation: The Retrospective Stakes Of The Critical Question -- Truth And The Constitution Of The Self -- The History Of Subjectivity And Its Internal Tensions. Béatrice Han ; Translated By Edward Pile. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 199-234) And Index. This text explores the constant tension between the historical and the transcendental that lies at the heart of Michel Foucault's work. In the process, it also assesses the philosophical foundations of his thought by examining his theoretical borrowings from Kant, Nietzsche and Heidegger