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Book SynopsisShows that philosophical genealogy involves not only the critique of modernity but also its transformation
Trade ReviewGenealogy as Critique breathes fresh air into a number of stale scholarly debates about the periodization of Foucault's work, the viability of genealogy as a method, and the relationship between Foucault and his interlocutors. It is a must read for anyone interested in Foucault and especially in the relationship between Foucault and critical theory.
* Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
This impressive book by Koopman . . . exposes what he perceives to be inaccurate readings of Foucault's work stemming from Habermas, Derrida, and other 'Weberian' interpretations. . . . Recommended.
* Choice *
Colin Koopman's 'Genealogy as Critique' is critical theory at its best: informed by incisive intellectual reconstructions, guided by immanent critique, and aiming at practical transformations that speak to our unique historical challenges.Oct. 2014
* Foucault Studies *
Genealogy as Critique is an excellent book. . . After the academic industry that Foucault's works have spawned, it is difficult to imagine yet another treatment of them that could possibly offer new insight or open up a dimension of his thought that hadn't already been noticed. However, Colin Koopman's book does just that. . . Although I have studied and written on Foucault for over thirty years now, I found much in the book that was fresh and interesting.Oct. 2014
-- Todd May * History & Theory *
In Genealogy as Critique, Colin Koopman traces the contours of Foucault's critical method of genealogy, presenting it not as a catch-all term for approaching history as a nonhistorian, but rather as a method of inquiry valuable to many fields, including communication, cultural studies, history, and sociology.8, 2014
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: What Genealogy Does
1. Critical Historiography: Politics, Philosophy & Problematization
2. Three Uses of Genealogy: Subversion, Vindication & Problematization
3. What Problematization Is: Contingency, Complexity & Critique
4. What Problematization Does: Aims, Sources & Implications
5. Foucault's Problematization of Modernity: The Reciprocal Incompatibility of Discipline and Liberation
6. Foucault's Reconstruction of Modern Moralities: An Ethics of Self-Transformation
7. Problematization plus Reconstruction: Genealogy, Pragmatism & Critical Theory
Notes
Bibliography
Index
