II 283
Reason/Foucault: we supervise it in particular: neither it nor its past, nor what makes it possible, nor what it makes us, escapes its transcendental destiny.
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III 23ff
Reason/Insanity/Hegel: For Foucault, Hegel is the witness for a new therapeutic concept: not just unreason, but a self-contradiction of the reasonable "per se".
Hegel: in insanity the immediacy of the heart has the prevalence.
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Hegel.
From the perspective of the insane non-whole (Hegel) society appears as the real madness.
Foucault: wanted to write the story of this other kind of insanity.
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Gaus I 50
Reason/Foucault/Bennett: Foucault (...) believes that ‘the central issue of philosophy and critical thought since the eighteenth century has been, still is, and will, I hope, remain the question, What is the Reason that we use? What are its historical effects? What are its limits, and what are its dangers?’ (1989
(1): 269).
Reason/postmodernism/Bennett: To employ reasoning without recourse to reason, as postmodern theory does, is to develop a heightened sensitivity to the ethical and political dangers of relying upon reasoning outside of its relationship to less cognitive forms of knowing and experiencing.
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Postmodernism, >
Experience, >
Knowledge, >
Recognition.
1. Foucault, Michel (1989) ‘An ethics of pleasure’. In Sylverer Lotringer, ed., Foucault Live, trans. John Johnston. London: Semiotext(e).
Jane Bennett, 2004. „Postmodern Approaches to Political Theory“. In: Gaus, Gerald F. & Kukathas, Chandran 2004. Handbook of Political Theory. SAGE Publications.
