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Reading After Foucault presents new readings of German literature, letters, and culture from 1750 to 1830, based upon the pioneering work of the late Michel Foucault. Discussing the structures of historical-thought systems, the emergence of the human sciences, modern institutions of reading and writing, and technologies of self-fashioning, the authors extend Foucault's research into the system of writing technologies and power relations and reexamine the canon and the disciplines and institutions which make it possible. This collection of twelve essays has as its framework the questioning of traditional identities, hierarchies, interpretive methods, and conceptions of the literary that mark Foucault's contribution to literary criticism, theory, and history. While some of the essays provide examples of what Foucault wrote, others rethink the period of German literature covered by the volume as an enactment of Foucault's theoretical and methodological insights. Many of the essays are less strict applications of what he wrote than attempts to think what he wrote further and to expand or modify his discourse. Offering a wide range of approaches, the contributors look for traces of subj

Author

Robert S. Leventhal

Publisher

Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814325100

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities