blur from my phd:
Foucault’s analysis of disciplinary power has been compared to Weber’s description of the mechanisms of domination at play in capitalist rationality.
see Arpad Szakolczai, Max Weber and Michel Foucault: Parallel Life-Works. London: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought, 8. Routledge, 1998. This book is a somewhat existentialist attempt at biographising theories. Half biographical, half theoretical, the comparison between Weber and Foucault remains unconvincing. For a more Nietzschean reading of the discourse on genealogies of reason, see also David Owen, Maturity and Modernity: Nietzsche, Weber, Foucault and the Ambivalence of Reason. London: Routledge, 1994.
The main point of difference Foucault claims with respect to Weber is that he is not working through ideal types, nor writing a history of rationalisation per se, with any ‘anthropological’ invariable. Foucault’s genealogies take rationalities as the operative framework of discursive practices. see M. Foucault, ‘Questions of method’ in G. Burchell (ed.), The Foucault effect: Studies in Governmentality, Hertfordshire: Harvester Press, 1991, p.79
Foucault writes: 'No given form of rationality is actually reason. […] I do not speak of the point at which reason became instrumental. At present, for example, I am studying the problem of techniques of the self in Greek and Roman antiquity; how man, human life, and the self were all objects of a certain number of tekhnai that, with their exacting rationality, could well be compared to any technique of production.' M. Foucault, ‘Structuralism and Post-structuralism’ in Essential Works: Aesthetics, 2000, p. 442
arianna
Stuart Elden wrote:
Foucault’s analysis of disciplinary power has been compared to Weber’s description of the mechanisms of domination at play in capitalist rationality.
see Arpad Szakolczai, Max Weber and Michel Foucault: Parallel Life-Works. London: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought, 8. Routledge, 1998. This book is a somewhat existentialist attempt at biographising theories. Half biographical, half theoretical, the comparison between Weber and Foucault remains unconvincing. For a more Nietzschean reading of the discourse on genealogies of reason, see also David Owen, Maturity and Modernity: Nietzsche, Weber, Foucault and the Ambivalence of Reason. London: Routledge, 1994.
The main point of difference Foucault claims with respect to Weber is that he is not working through ideal types, nor writing a history of rationalisation per se, with any ‘anthropological’ invariable. Foucault’s genealogies take rationalities as the operative framework of discursive practices. see M. Foucault, ‘Questions of method’ in G. Burchell (ed.), The Foucault effect: Studies in Governmentality, Hertfordshire: Harvester Press, 1991, p.79
Foucault writes: 'No given form of rationality is actually reason. […] I do not speak of the point at which reason became instrumental. At present, for example, I am studying the problem of techniques of the self in Greek and Roman antiquity; how man, human life, and the self were all objects of a certain number of tekhnai that, with their exacting rationality, could well be compared to any technique of production.' M. Foucault, ‘Structuralism and Post-structuralism’ in Essential Works: Aesthetics, 2000, p. 442
arianna
Stuart Elden wrote:
David Owen's book Maturity and Modernity would be a good place to start -
looks at Foucault, Weber and Nietzsche
Stuart
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Subject: Re: [Foucault-L] Foucault and Weber?
Dear Ben:
Your comment about "Economy and Society" reminded me of Max
Weber's giant work of that name, and that reminded me that
Foucault was quite interested in Weber's work...but I can't
remember where I read that. Does anyone know? Was it
somewhere in the governmentality stuff?
Peter
Peter Winston Fettner
Department of Philosophy,
Intellectual Heritage Program
Temple University
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