Descartes and Foucault

Prado, C. G.

ISBN 10: 0776602756 / ISBN 13: 9780776602752

Published by University of Ottawa Press, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Descartes and Foucault
• Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0776602756
• ISBN 13: 9780776602752
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 11 ounces

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Synopsis

Is philosophy, as traditionally conceived and taught, over? How have theories of truth and philosophical methods for justifying knowledge-claims evolved? What are the views of Descartes and Foucault on these issues? What were their contributions to the ongoing debate, now become a crisis, about the nature of philosophy itself?

This book provides an unconventional introduction to core philosophical issues by considering and contrasting two brief and accessible but highly influential and representative philosophical works: Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy and Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality: works which, in their respective styles and methods, offer the most widely divergent paradigms of philosophizing on questions of epistemology.

The newcomer to philosophy will gain from this volume an understanding of the basic philosophical stances of Descartes and Foucault, and will see how their views on the nature of truth and knowledge constitute a radical opposition. The more experienced intellectual practitioner will find herein new perspectives on both traditional and postmodern philosophical approaches.

About the Author

C.G. Prado is Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University.