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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright, Dedication 2 Table of Contents 6 Acknowledgements 7 Introduction 9 A. Philosophical Underpinnings 59 I. Foucault and the Idea of History 61 II. History Considered Generally: Thinking Freedom through Domination 119 III. Foucault after Hyppolite: Toward an A-Theistic Theodicy 161 B. The Histories 213 IV. Madness and the Cunning of Reason 215 V. A Contrastive History of Punitive Reason 271 VI. From History as Self-Awareness to Self-Wariness through History 335 Conclusion: The Indefinite and Undefined Work of Freedom as History 395 Works Cited 427 Index 439 Publisher:University of Ottawa Press,Published:2012,ISBN:9780776619989,Related ISBN:9780776607818,Language:English,OCLC:824081688 This work underscores the need to examine history philosophically, not only to better appreciate how it unfolds and relates to our own unfolding lives, but to better appreciate our free engagement in this changing world. Linking a conception of ourselves as free beings to the historical process was of central importance to the classical speculative philosophies of history of the nineteenth century, most notably Hegel’s. Michel Foucault’s work is often taken to be the antithe

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Author
Fillion, Réal Robert;Foucault, Michel
Publisher
University of Ottawa Press/Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa
Published
2013
Language
EN
ISBN
9780776619996
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Philosophy, Humanities

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