Understanding Foucault, Understanding Modernism by David Scott -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Contents Series Preface Abbreviations Introduction: Foucault’s Modernisms

What of the Enlightenment? The modern question and the Frankfurt School Foucault’s questions An unrecognized precursor: Fenollosa The fiction-making of history, the epic of critique The obligation to write: From modern literature and the hermeneutic of self Conclusion Notes

Part One Conceptualizing Foucault

2 The Secret of the Corpse-Language Machine:: The Birth of the Clinic and Raymond Roussel

Introduction The birth of the clinic

Classificatory medicine to anatomo-clinical method The normalizing gaze A politicization of consciousness: The hospital and the epidemic Open up a few corpses

Through the incision of writing Roussel’s secret

The simple fact of language Some words open language to depth Hermeneutic of the secret of the secret Corpse-language machine

Notes

Introduction Convergences and intersections Canguilhem’s philosophy of the concept Thinking the archive The trihedron: Man’s space Literature: Without end Notes

4 Archaeology of Knowledge: Foucault and the Time of Discourse

The historical a priori and the archive The unities of discourse and discursive formations Archaeology and temporality Notes

Conclusion Notes

6 Foucault’s The History of Sexuality

Questioning the theory of repression Confession The social construction of sexualities Power Legacy Notes

Part Two Foucault and Aesthetics

7 Technologies of Modernism: Historicism in Foucault and Dos Passos

Modernism, historicism, and technique Technologies of the subject, or the novel exploded Prismatic narratives The polyvalence of discourse An anti-exceptionalist U.S.A.: The contingencies of time and space Coda: Rethinking leftism Notes

8 Thought as Spirituality in Raymond Roussel

Toward a spirituality of contestation1 Bataille’s inner experience: Beyond the triumph of the will Hegel’s mutilation Nietzsche’s tears Blanchot: Death beyond good and evil The death of Hegalian negation Nietzsche’s aphorisms are not true The space of Roussel’s language: Writing at the limit The process paper (Process I): The productive power of silences The ready-mades (Process II) Notes

9 Life Escaping: Foucault, Vitalism, and Gertrude Stein’s Life-Writing

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10 The Specter of Manet: A Contribution to the Archaeology of Painting

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11 The Hermaphroditic Image: Modern Art, Thought, and Expérience in Michel Foucault

Art in Foucault Hermaphrodite images Photogenic painting Experience of the acategorical Passion as an experience of the acategorical Notes

Part Three Glossary Essays

Archaeology The “Author-Function”

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Biopower

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Discipline Episteme

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Genealogy Power Problematization

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Transgression Truth Subjectivation

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Notes on Contributors Index Name Index Copyright Page