Re: [Foucault-L] about the Secondary Thesis (1961)

In his text Foucault gives a very particular place to Kant's
"Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht"
– one of the latests books Kant published (1798) -
in the totality of Kant's works.

Foucault has translated this book into French and published it in 1964.
Anthropologie du point de vue pragmatique. Paris: J. Vrin.

When we read Kant's Anthropology we experience
a strange feeling, since many passages seem to be
contradictory with the critical texts, and Kant is not exactly
the writer from whom we could expect contradictions...
But those are not real ones,
since the critical and the anthropological texts don't have the
same reference. The man-subject of the Critics is not
the same of the object-man of the Anthropology.

In fact, Foucault identifies three irreducible domains in Kant's work:
the Critics, the Anthropology and
the incipient Transcendental Philosophy
(which consists of some fragments in the opus postumum).
They are irreducible (irréductibles) because
this three domains cannot collapse one into the other.

There is an excellent article (in Spanish)
to understand the Foucault's thesis and its construction:
GROS, Frédéric; DÁVILA, Jorge (1996): Michel Foucault, lector de Kant. 38 f.
Venezuela: Consejo de Publicaciones de la Universidade de los Andes. Access: <http://www.comunidadandina.org/bda/ficha_bda.asp?registro=89>.


Leon


psicopr wrote:

Hello,

I´m very curious about the uses of the Secondary Thesis on Kant, after the sharing of the text last year, and the posterior divulgation at various websites. What do you think about the impact of the argumentation of secondary thesis related with other texts (like Histoire de la Folie, Le Mots et les Choses, and/or others)? What do you think about the quality of the transcription?

best regards,

Marcio

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