James and Arianna,
I think Arianna is correct James, Foucault thought of himself as a Kantian. Semiotext(e) published a translation of Foucault's Introduction to Kant's Anthropology in 2008. It is, as far as I know, complete, unlike the online version Arianna pointed you to. You might also be interested in The Politics of Truth, also Semiotext(e), a collection of Foucault's essays edited by Sylvère Lotringer. Some of the Kantian connections, especially the first three essays by Foucault follow Kant's suggestions, critique Kant, and the Enlightenment.
Best.
Doug
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On Nov 6, 2010, at 5:13 AM, ari wrote:
>
> Hi James,
>
> have you read it? It's been online for many years now.
> http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpfoucault1.htm
> Foucault also makes an explicit connection in the entry he wrote under the
> pseudonym Maurice Florence to the Dictionnaire des Philosophes on himself,
> which begins like this: 'To the extent that Foucault fits into the
> philosophical tradition, it is in the critical tradition of Kant, and his
> project could be called a critical history of thought' (p. 457 of Michel
> Foucault Essential volume 2 Aesthetics).
> My comments on your questions are online, but in short I'd add that crucial
> to this particular work is not only the ethical and political issue of what
> man makes of himself, but also a clear stance against transcendentalism in
> all its forms and for a peculiar epistemological pragmatics.
>
> Enjoy it,
>
> Arianna
>
>
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 23:08:55 -0400, james <spatium@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> In the previous thread there was a tie into F's dissertation (1 of 2)
>> on Kant's pragmatic anthropology. If this in fact demonstrates F's
>> connection to Kant...in what way? By pointing out the arrival of man
>> as doublet, and identifying the role of an "originary" in terms of
>> something like an empirical a priori, strong connections can be made
>> with F's early work of his own. But I wonder, what use does F make of
>> these notions - is it critical or constructive (that is, is he a
>> neo-Kantian)?
>>
>> james
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I think Arianna is correct James, Foucault thought of himself as a Kantian. Semiotext(e) published a translation of Foucault's Introduction to Kant's Anthropology in 2008. It is, as far as I know, complete, unlike the online version Arianna pointed you to. You might also be interested in The Politics of Truth, also Semiotext(e), a collection of Foucault's essays edited by Sylvère Lotringer. Some of the Kantian connections, especially the first three essays by Foucault follow Kant's suggestions, critique Kant, and the Enlightenment.
Best.
Doug
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Douglas Olena
doug@xxxxxxxxx
http://olena.com/wordpress1
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On Nov 6, 2010, at 5:13 AM, ari wrote:
>
> Hi James,
>
> have you read it? It's been online for many years now.
> http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpfoucault1.htm
> Foucault also makes an explicit connection in the entry he wrote under the
> pseudonym Maurice Florence to the Dictionnaire des Philosophes on himself,
> which begins like this: 'To the extent that Foucault fits into the
> philosophical tradition, it is in the critical tradition of Kant, and his
> project could be called a critical history of thought' (p. 457 of Michel
> Foucault Essential volume 2 Aesthetics).
> My comments on your questions are online, but in short I'd add that crucial
> to this particular work is not only the ethical and political issue of what
> man makes of himself, but also a clear stance against transcendentalism in
> all its forms and for a peculiar epistemological pragmatics.
>
> Enjoy it,
>
> Arianna
>
>
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 23:08:55 -0400, james <spatium@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> In the previous thread there was a tie into F's dissertation (1 of 2)
>> on Kant's pragmatic anthropology. If this in fact demonstrates F's
>> connection to Kant...in what way? By pointing out the arrival of man
>> as doublet, and identifying the role of an "originary" in terms of
>> something like an empirical a priori, strong connections can be made
>> with F's early work of his own. But I wonder, what use does F make of
>> these notions - is it critical or constructive (that is, is he a
>> neo-Kantian)?
>>
>> james
>> _______________________________________________
>> Foucault-L mailing list
> _______________________________________________
> Foucault-L mailing list