Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons
Elaborating Foucault’s Pragmatism
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2024
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978-1-032-67137-6 (ISBN)
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This book argues that the received view of the distinction between freedom and power must be rejected because it rests on an untenable account of the discursive cognition that endows individuals with the capacity for autonomy, self-governed rationality.
In liberal and Kantian approaches alike, the autonomous subject is a self-standing starting-point, whose freedom is constrained by relations of power only contingently because they are external to the subject’s constitution. Thus, the received view defines the distinction between freedom and power as a dichotomy. Michel Foucault is arguably the most important critic of that dichotomy. However, it is widely agreed that Foucault falls short of justifying the alternative view he develops, where power and freedom are essentially entangled instead. The book fills out the gap by investigating the social preconditions of discursive cognition. Drawing on pragmatist-inferentialist resources from the philosophy of language (Wittgenstein, Sellars, Brandom), it presents a new interpretation of Foucault’s philosophy that is unified by his overlooked idea of “the archaeology of knowledge”. As a result, the book explains why and how power and freedom must be entangled, but also what it means ethically to pursue and gain autonomy with respect to one’s own understanding.
Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in social and political philosophy, critical theory, ethics, philosophy of language, and the history of 20th-century philosophy.
In liberal and Kantian approaches alike, the autonomous subject is a self-standing starting-point, whose freedom is constrained by relations of power only contingently because they are external to the subject’s constitution. Thus, the received view defines the distinction between freedom and power as a dichotomy. Michel Foucault is arguably the most important critic of that dichotomy. However, it is widely agreed that Foucault falls short of justifying the alternative view he develops, where power and freedom are essentially entangled instead. The book fills out the gap by investigating the social preconditions of discursive cognition. Drawing on pragmatist-inferentialist resources from the philosophy of language (Wittgenstein, Sellars, Brandom), it presents a new interpretation of Foucault’s philosophy that is unified by his overlooked idea of “the archaeology of knowledge”. As a result, the book explains why and how power and freedom must be entangled, but also what it means ethically to pursue and gain autonomy with respect to one’s own understanding.
Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in social and political philosophy, critical theory, ethics, philosophy of language, and the history of 20th-century philosophy.
Tuomo Tiisala is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Vienna, Austria. He has taught at the University of Helsinki, New York University Abu Dhabi, and New York University, where he was a Bersoff Faculty Fellow after earning his PhD from the University of Chicago.
Introduction 1. Structural Heteronomy 2. Replacing the Sovereign Subject with Savoir 3. Keeping It Implicit: A Defense of the Archaeology of Knowledge 4. Against Power? 5. Overcoming the Present Limits of the Necessary Epilogue
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.7.2024 |
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Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy |
Zusatzinfo | 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-032-67137-8 / 1032671378 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-67137-6 / 9781032671376 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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