Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons Elaborating Foucault's Pragmatism
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. Drawing on pragmat-istinferentialist resources from the philosophy of lan...
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| Abstract | 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. Drawing on pragmat-istinferentialist resources from the philosophy of language (Wittgenstein, Sellars, Brandom), it presents a new interpretation of Foucault’s philosophy that is unified by his overlooked idea of “the archaeology of knowledge”. It explains why and how power and freedom must be entangled, but also what it means ethically to pursue and gain autonomy with respect to one’s own understanding.
In diesem Buch wird argumentiert, dass die gängige Auffassung von der Unterscheidung zwischen Freiheit und Macht verworfen werden muss, weil sie auf einer unhaltbaren Darstellung der diskursiven Kognition beruht, die Individuen mit der Fähigkeit zur Autonomie ausstattet. Unter Rückgriff auf pragmatistisch-istinferentialistische Ressourcen aus der Sprachphilosophie (Wittgenstein, Sellars, Brandom) wird eine neue Interpretation von Foucaults Philosophie vorgestellt, die durch seine übersehene Idee der „Archäologie des Wissens“ geeint wird. Sie erklärt, warum und wie Macht und Freiheit verschränkt sein müssen, aber auch, was es ethisch bedeutet, Autonomie in Bezug auf das eigene Verständnis anzustreben und zu gewinnen. |
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| AbstractList | 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 and self-governed rationality. In liberal and Kantian approaches alike, the autonomous subject is a self-standing starting point whose freedom is constrained by relations of power only contingently because they are external to the subject's constitution. Thus, the received view defines the distinction between freedom and power as a dichotomy. Michel Foucault is arguably the most important critic of that dichotomy. However, it is widely agreed that Foucault falls short of justifying the alternative view he develops, where power and freedom are essentially entangled instead. The book fills out the gap by investigating the social preconditions of discursive cognition. Drawing on pragmatist-inferentialist resources from the philosophy of language (Wittgenstein, Sellars, and Brandom), it presents a new interpretation of Foucault's philosophy that is unified by his overlooked idea of "the archaeology of knowledge." As a result, the book not only explains why and how power and freedom must be entangled but also what it means ethically to pursue and gain autonomy with respect to one's own understanding. Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in social and political philosophy, critical theory, ethics, philosophy of language, and the history of 20th-century philosophy. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 license. Any third party material in this book is not included in the OA Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. Please direct any permissions enquiries to the original rightsholder. This research was funded in whole or in part by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [10.55776/COE3]. For open access purposes, the author has applied a CC BY-NC public copyright license to any author-accepted manuscript version arising from this submission. Published with the support of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): 10.55776/PUB1157 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. 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. Drawing on pragmat-istinferentialist resources from the philosophy of language (Wittgenstein, Sellars, Brandom), it presents a new interpretation of Foucault’s philosophy that is unified by his overlooked idea of “the archaeology of knowledge”. It explains why and how power and freedom must be entangled, but also what it means ethically to pursue and gain autonomy with respect to one’s own understanding. In diesem Buch wird argumentiert, dass die gängige Auffassung von der Unterscheidung zwischen Freiheit und Macht verworfen werden muss, weil sie auf einer unhaltbaren Darstellung der diskursiven Kognition beruht, die Individuen mit der Fähigkeit zur Autonomie ausstattet. Unter Rückgriff auf pragmatistisch-istinferentialistische Ressourcen aus der Sprachphilosophie (Wittgenstein, Sellars, Brandom) wird eine neue Interpretation von Foucaults Philosophie vorgestellt, die durch seine übersehene Idee der „Archäologie des Wissens“ geeint wird. Sie erklärt, warum und wie Macht und Freiheit verschränkt sein müssen, aber auch, was es ethisch bedeutet, Autonomie in Bezug auf das eigene Verständnis anzustreben und zu gewinnen. 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 and self-governed rationality. In liberal and Kantian approaches alike, the autonomous subject is a self-standing starting point whose freedom is constrained by relations of power only contingently because they are external to the subject's constitution. Thus, the received view defines the distinction between freedom and power as a dichotomy. Michel Foucault is arguably the most important critic of that dichotomy. However, it is widely agreed that Foucault falls short of justifying the alternative view he develops, where power and freedom are essentially entangled instead. The book fills out the gap by investigating the social preconditions of discursive cognition. Drawing on pragmatist-inferentialist resources from the philosophy of language (Wittgenstein, Sellars, and Brandom), it presents a new interpretation of Foucault's philosophy that is unified by his overlooked idea of "the archaeology of knowledge." As a result, the book not only explains why and how power and freedom must be entangled but also what it means ethically to pursue and gain autonomy with respect to one's own understanding. Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in social and political philosophy, critical theory, ethics, philosophy of language, and the history of 20th-century philosophy. 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 and self-governed rationality. In liberal and Kantian approaches alike, the autonomous subject is a self-standing starting point whose freedom is constrained by relations of power only contingently because they are external to the subject's constitution. Thus, the received view defines the distinction between freedom and power as a dichotomy. Michel Foucault is arguably the most important critic of that dichotomy. However, it is widely agreed that Foucault falls short of justifying the alternative view he develops, where power and freedom are essentially entangled instead. The book fills out the gap by investigating the social preconditions of discursive cognition. Drawing on pragmatist-inferentialist resources from the philosophy of language (Wittgenstein, Sellars, and Brandom), it presents a new interpretation of Foucault's philosophy that is unified by his overlooked idea of "the archaeology of knowledge." As a result, the book not only explains why and how power and freedom must be entangled but also what it means ethically to pursue and gain autonomy with respect to one's own understanding. Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in social and political philosophy, critical theory, ethics, philosophy of language, and the history of 20th-century philosophy. |
| Abstract_FL | In diesem Buch wird argumentiert, dass die gängige Auffassung von der Unterscheidung zwischen Freiheit und Macht verworfen werden muss, weil sie auf einer unhaltbaren Darstellung der diskursiven Kognition beruht, die Individuen mit der Fähigkeit zur Autonomie ausstattet. Unter Rückgriff auf pragmatistisch-istinferentialistische Ressourcen aus der Sprachphilosophie (Wittgenstein, Sellars, Brandom) wird eine neue Interpretation von Foucaults Philosophie vorgestellt, die durch seine übersehene Idee der „Archäologie des Wissens“ geeint wird. Sie erklärt, warum und wie Macht und Freiheit verschränkt sein müssen, aber auch, was es ethisch bedeutet, Autonomie in Bezug auf das eigene Verständnis anzustreben und zu gewinnen. |
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| TableOfContents | 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 |
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