Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons : : Elaborating Foucault's Pragmatism / / Tuomo Tiisala.

• Superior document: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy Series
• VerfasserIn: Tiisala, Tuomo,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Routledge,, [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge studies in twentieth century philosophy.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (148 pages)

This book argues that the received view of the distinction between freedom and power must be rejected because it rests on an untenable account of the discursive cognition that endows individuals with the capacity for autonomy, self-governed rationality.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Structural heteronomy -- 1.1. Autonomy as the ethical ideal -- 1.2. The regress of rules: From representational to dispositional understanding -- 1.3. I-thou, I-we, you-we sociality -- 1.4. From training to pattern-governed behavior -- 1.5. Semantic self-consciousness -- 1.6. Structural heteronomy -- 2. Replacing the Sovereign Subject with savoir -- 2.1. Foucault's rejection of the Sovereign Subject -- 2.2. Foucault's inferentialism -- 2.3. An external history of truth -- 2.4. Archaeology and genealogy of savoir -- 2.5. The charge of lost autonomy -- 3. Keeping it implicit: A defense of the archaeology of knowledge -- 3.1. The charge of "regularities which regulate themselves" -- 3.2. Foucault's pragmatist turn -- 3.3. The charge of "a structuralist move" -- 3.4. Foucault's Kantian pragmatism -- 3.5. Archaeology as a diagnosis of the present -- 4. Against power? -- 4.1. The analytic of power against power -- 4.2. Who's afraid of the habitual? -- 4.3. Systems of thought: The scope of savoir -- 4.4. Implicitness of great anonymous strategies -- 4.5. Two paths for critique in the context of "politics of truth" -- 5. Overcoming the present limits of the necessary -- 5.1. Obviousness -- 5.2. Present limits of the necessary -- 5.3. Foucault's commitment to the ideal of autonomy -- 5.4. The critical attitude as virtue -- 5.5. Critique of concepts: Constitution and ideology -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Index.