Genealogy as Critique: Foucault and the Problems of Modernity

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Genealogy as Critique AmeriCAn PhilosoPhy John J. stuhr, editor editoriAl BoArd susan Bordo Vincent Colapietro John lachs noëlle mcAfee José medina Cheyney ryan richard shusterman Genealogy as Critique Colin Koopman Indiana University Press BLOOMINGTON AND INDIANAPOLIS Foucault and the Problems of Modernity This book is a publication of indiana University Press 601 north morton street Bloomington, indiana 47404-3797 UsA iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931© 2013 by Colin Koopman All rights reserved no part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. the Association of American University Presses’ resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. the paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American national standard for information sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed library materials, Ansi Z39.48-1992. manufactured in the United states of America library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data Koopman, Colin. Genealogy as critique : Foucault and the problems of modernity / Colin Koopman. p. cm. — (American philosophy) includes bibliographical references and index. isBn 978-0-253-00619-6 (cloth : alk. paper) — isBn 978-0-253-00621-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) — isBn 978-0-253-00623-3 (electronic book) 1. Foucault, michel, 1926–1984. 2. Genealogy (Philosophy) 3. Kant, immanuel, 1724–1804. i. title. B2430.F724K66 2013 194—dc23 2012033557 1 2 3 4 5 18 17 16 15 14 13 “if Foucault is indeed perfectly at home in the philosophical tradition, it is within the critical tradition of Kant, and his project could be called the Critical History of Thought.” —michel Foucault in “Foucault, michel, 1926–” from 1984 “the notion common to all the work that i have done since History of Madness is that of problematization.” —michel Foucault in “the Concern for truth” from 1984 ...