The death of man : Foucault and anti-humanism

In Timothy O'Leary & Christopher Falzon (eds.), Foucault and Philosophy. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 118--42 (2010)
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The “Death of Man”: Foucault and anti‐humanism   postwar enthusiasm for existentialism ‐ wave of anti‐humanism in Germany, by Heidegger's Letter on Humanism   French anti‐humanism ‐ a denunciation of foundationalism and of Enlightenment   dialogues between contemporaries in philosophy – think Hegel–Schelling, Heidegger–Carnap   Rawls–Habermas   three stages of Foucault's philosophical development ‐ archaeology, genealogy and history of subjectivity   Foucault's conclusions in The Order of Things ‐ appearance of “man,” humanism, and anthropology   underlying assumption ‐ that the infinite has ontological pre‐eminence over the finite   Chapter 9 of The Order of Things ‐ “empirico‐transcendental duplication” for post‐Kantians and contemporary philosophy   Foucault understanding of positivism ‐ naturalistic reduction of “man's transcendental side to its empirical aspect”   Foucault's own rejection of essentialism ‐ “we have given thee … no form of thy own” and self‐creation

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