Gary Gutting
Biographic Data
| ID | 365964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary Gutting |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary |
| FAMILY NAME | Gutting |
| SIGNATURE | GUTTING G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Foucault: A Very Short Introduction
Foucault: A Very Short Introduction presents a wide-ranging, but non-systematic exploration of some highlights of Foucault’s life and thought. Beginning with a brief biography of the philosopher to set the social and political stage, it then tackles Foucault’s thoughts on literature, in particular the avant-garde scene; his philosophical and historical work; his treatment of knowledge and power in modern society; and his thoughts on sexuality. Th…
Philosophical Progress
This article begins by reflecting on the Cartesian project of beginning with a skeptically unassailable first truth and from there progressively building up a system of philosophical truths. It then presents a less problematic but similar project associated with contemporary analytic philosophy, noting, however, that it too fails to yield progress in answering the fundamental questions of philosophy. Next, the author examines the idea that philos…
The Politics of the Order of Things: Foucault, Sartre, and Deleuze
Foucault's histories are typically aimed at what he regarded as intolerable political consequences of knowledge-based disciplines such as psychiatry and medicine. But The Order of Things is hard to fit into this pattern. What are the intolerable political consequences of the metaphysical and epistemological "humanism" the book attacks? To answer this question, I discuss Foucault's attitude toward Sartre and Deleuze, neither mentioned in The Order…
Foucault, Hegel, and Philosophy
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Continental Philosophy of Science
What Have We Been Missing? Science and Philosophy in Twentieth-Century French Thought
Philosophy of science developed in the nineteenth century from continuations of and reactions to Kant's critical philosophy. The project arose from modern science's challenge to the cognitive authority of traditional philosophy. Galileo, Descartes, and Newton no doubt thought of themselves as philosophers, answering fundamental questions about the nature of planetary and terrestrial motions that had been central for ‘natural philosophy’. It gradu…
Zammito and the Kuhnian Revolution
Ancient sex
Towards the end of his life, Foucault's topic of exploration turned to the ethical formation of the self, which emerged from his analysis of modern power relations. ‘Ancient sex’ looks at Foucault's analysis of the historical constitution of ethical identity beyond the Christian hermeneutics of the self and its modern secular equivalent. According to Foucault, there are few differences between the ancients and the Christians on the level of moral…
Introduction Michel Foucault: A User’s Manual
For all of Foucault's reservations about modernity and authorship, his writings are typical of those of a modernist author in their demand for interpretation. Any writing, of course, requires some interpretation as part of our efforts to evaluate, refine, extend, or appreciate its achievement or to provide special background that readers outside the author's culture or historical period may require. But certain authors - in literature, the twenti…
Foucault and the History of Madness
Michel Foucault's work always had an ambivalent relation to established academic disciplines, but almost all his books are at least superficially classifiable as histories. His first major work, in particular, seems to proclaim its status in the title: Histoire de la folie a` l'âge classique. One plausible way of trying to understand and evaluate this seminal book is by assessing its status as a work of history.
Foucault: A Very Short Introduction
Foucault: A Very Short Introductions explores the highlights of Foucault's life and thoughts on literature, in particular the avant-garde scene; his philosophical and historical work; his treatment of knowledge and power in modern society; and his thoughts on sexuality. Foucault was one of those rare philosophers who became a cult figure. From aesthetics to the penal system, from madness and civilization to avant-garde literature, Foucault was ha…
The Cambridge Companion to Foucault
For Michel Foucault, philosophy was a way of questioning the allegedly necessary truths that underpin the practices and institutions of modern society. He carried this out in a series of deeply original and strikingly controversial studies on the origins of modern medical and social scientific disciplines. These studies have raised fundamental questions about the nature of human knowledge and its relation to power structures, and have become majo…
Sartre, Foucault and Derrida
This chapter contains sections titled: Sartre Foucault Derrida
Foucault's Philosophy of Experience
Research Article| May 01 2002 Foucault's Philosophy of Experience Gary Gutting Gary Gutting Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2002) 29 (2): 69–85. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-29-2-69 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Gary Gutting; Foucault's Philosophy of Experience. boundary 2 1 May 2002; 29 (2): 69–85. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2…
French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
In this book Gary Gutting tells, clearly and comprehensively, the story of French philosophy from 1890 to 1990. He examines the often neglected background of spiritualism, university idealism, and early philosophy of science, and also discusses the privileged role of philosophy in the French education system. Taking account of this background, together with the influences of avant-garde literature and German philosophy, he develops a rich account…
Pragmatic Liberalism and the Critique of Modernity
Introduction: the question of modernity Part I. Richard Rorty: The Rudiments of Pragmatic Liberalism: 1. The philosophy of representations 2. Knowledge without representations 3. Justification as a social practice 4. The problem of truth 5. Davidsonian therapy 6. Truth and science 7. Ethics without foundations 8. Liberal ironism Part II. Alasdaire MacIntyre: A Modern Malgre Lui: 1. MacIntyre's critique of the enlightenment 2. Which enlightenment?…
French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
Introduction: Michel Foucault: A user’s manual
For all Foucault's reservations about modernity and authorship, his writings are typical of a modernist author in their demand for interpretation. Any writing, of course, requires some interpretation as part of our efforts to evaluate, refine, extend, or appreciate its achievement; or to provide special background that readers outside the author's culture or historical period may require. But certain authors – in literature, the twentieth-century…
Foucault and the history of madness
Foucault's work always had an ambivalent relation to established academic disciplines, but almost all his books are at least superficially classifiable as histories. His first major work, in particular, seems to proclaim its status in the title: Histoire de la folie à l'age classique. One plausible way of trying to understand and evaluate this seminal book is by assessing its status as a work of history.
The Cambridge Companion to Foucault
Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Michel Foucault, one of the most important of contemporary…
Foucault's Strata and Fields: An Investigation into Archaeological and Genealogical Science Studies . Martin Kusch
Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason
Husserl's Phenomenology and the Foundations of Natural Science . Charles W. Harvey
Post-Foucaldian Strategies
Foucault's Genealogical Method
Husserl and Scientific Realism
Foucault's Philosophy of Experience
Research Article| May 01 2002 Foucault's Philosophy of Experience Gary Gutting Gary Gutting Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2002) 29 (2): 69–85. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-29-2-69 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Gary Gutting; Foucault's Philosophy of Experience. boundary 2 1 May 2002; 29 (2): 69–85. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2…
Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason
Einstein's Discovery of Special Relativity
This paper discusses the controversy between philosophers of science (e.g. Grünbaum) and historians of science (e.g. Holton) regarding Einstein's discovery of STR. Although Holton is surely correct on the historical point that experimental results (especially the Michelson–Morley experiment) had little influence on Einstein's development of STR, this fact is not sufficient to establish his (and Polanyi's) claim that major scientific discoveries a…
Conceptual structures and scientific change
Einstein's Discovery of Special Relativity
This paper discusses the controversy between philosophers of science (e.g. Grünbaum) and historians of science (e.g. Holton) regarding Einstein's discovery of STR. Although Holton is surely correct on the historical point that experimental results (especially the Michelson–Morley experiment) had little influence on Einstein's development of STR, this fact is not sufficient to establish his (and Polanyi's) claim that major scientific discoveries a…
Conceptual structures and scientific change
Husserl and Scientific Realism
Knowledge and Error: Sketches on the Psychology of Enquiry . Ernst Mach , Brian McGuinness , Paul Foulkes , Thomas J. McCormack
Method and Appraisal in the Physical Sciences: The Critical Background to Modern Science, 1800-1905. Colin Howson
Paradigms and Revolutions: Applications and Appraisals of Thomas Kuhn's Philosophy of Science
The Strong Program: A Dialogue
The archaeology of knowledge
It would be too much to claim that the histories of thought Foucault wrote before the methodological reflections of AK were, from the beginning, part of a single coherent project. He himself remarks that it was only after finishing OT that he saw the possibility of construing the earlier works as part of a unified enterprise. But, as our discussions of the methods at work in the three books has confirmed, there is an important sense in which this…
Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason: Science and the History of Reason
This book is an important introduction to the critical interpretation of the work of the major French thinker Michel Foucault. Through comprehensive and detailed analyses of such important texts as The History of Madness in the Age of Reason, The Birth of the Clinic, The Order of Things, and The Archaeology of Knowledge, Professor Gutting provides a lucid exposition of Foucault's 'archaeological' approach to the history of thought - a method for …
Michel Foucault's archaeology of scientific reason
Foucault's Genealogical Method
History and Philosophy of Science
Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason
Husserl's Phenomenology and the Foundations of Natural Science . Charles W. Harvey
Post-Foucaldian Strategies
Foucault's Strata and Fields: An Investigation into Archaeological and Genealogical Science Studies . Martin Kusch
Introduction: Michel Foucault: A user’s manual
For all Foucault's reservations about modernity and authorship, his writings are typical of a modernist author in their demand for interpretation. Any writing, of course, requires some interpretation as part of our efforts to evaluate, refine, extend, or appreciate its achievement; or to provide special background that readers outside the author's culture or historical period may require. But certain authors – in literature, the twentieth-century…
Foucault and the history of madness
Foucault's work always had an ambivalent relation to established academic disciplines, but almost all his books are at least superficially classifiable as histories. His first major work, in particular, seems to proclaim its status in the title: Histoire de la folie à l'age classique. One plausible way of trying to understand and evaluate this seminal book is by assessing its status as a work of history.
The Cambridge Companion to Foucault
Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Michel Foucault, one of the most important of contemporary…
French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
In this book Gary Gutting tells, clearly and comprehensively, the story of French philosophy from 1890 to 1990. He examines the often neglected background of spiritualism, university idealism, and early philosophy of science, and also discusses the privileged role of philosophy in the French education system. Taking account of this background, together with the influences of avant-garde literature and German philosophy, he develops a rich account…
Pragmatic Liberalism and the Critique of Modernity
Introduction: the question of modernity Part I. Richard Rorty: The Rudiments of Pragmatic Liberalism: 1. The philosophy of representations 2. Knowledge without representations 3. Justification as a social practice 4. The problem of truth 5. Davidsonian therapy 6. Truth and science 7. Ethics without foundations 8. Liberal ironism Part II. Alasdaire MacIntyre: A Modern Malgre Lui: 1. MacIntyre's critique of the enlightenment 2. Which enlightenment?…
French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
Sartre, Foucault and Derrida
This chapter contains sections titled: Sartre Foucault Derrida
Foucault's Philosophy of Experience
Research Article| May 01 2002 Foucault's Philosophy of Experience Gary Gutting Gary Gutting Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2002) 29 (2): 69–85. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-29-2-69 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Gary Gutting; Foucault's Philosophy of Experience. boundary 2 1 May 2002; 29 (2): 69–85. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2…
Ancient sex
Towards the end of his life, Foucault's topic of exploration turned to the ethical formation of the self, which emerged from his analysis of modern power relations. ‘Ancient sex’ looks at Foucault's analysis of the historical constitution of ethical identity beyond the Christian hermeneutics of the self and its modern secular equivalent. According to Foucault, there are few differences between the ancients and the Christians on the level of moral…
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