Between Genealogy and Epistemology: Psychology, Politics, and Knowledge in the Thought of Michel Foucault

by Todd May

Book Overview

May offers a clear and cogent response to the question which other philosophers have most often found troubling in Foucault's work: how can Foucault's genealogies of power/knowledge in the human sciences be justified?-Joseph Rouse, Wesleyan University"In spite of the immense industry of Foucault scholarship, Todd May has managed to write a very trim study that shows how Foucault avoids certain self-referential paradoxes almost always brought against...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271027827
• ISBN13: 9780271027821
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.8"