“What is enlightenment?”
Kant and Foucault
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23249332 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Norris (University of Notre Dame, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Pages | 159-196 |
| Publication date | 1994-02-25 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Cambridge companion to Foucault (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/ccol9780521403320.009 |
| OpenAlex | W2979613628 |
| ISBN | 9780521403320 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Many commentators have noted a marked change of emphasis in Foucault's later thinking about issues of truth, ethics, and social responsibility. For some, this change was characterized chiefly by a certain relaxation of the skeptical rigor – the attitude of extreme Nietzschean suspicion with regard to truth-claims or ethical values of whatever kind – that had hitherto played a prominent role in his work. Thus, according to Roy Boyne, the shift can be located with a fair degree of precision as occurring between Volume One of The History of Sexuality (where Foucault's genealogies of power/knowledge seem to exclude all notions of truth, enlightenment, self-understanding or effective political agency) and the later, posthumous volumes where this doctrine gives way to a sense of renewed ethical and social engagement. In this work, as Boyne reads it
Agency (philosophy) · Doctrine · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Michel foucault · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Skepticism · Sociology · Theology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1999 - 2020 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |