The Body Problematic: Political Imagination in Kant and Foucault

by Laura Hengehold

Book Overview

Late in life, Foucault identified with "the critical tradition of Kant," encouraging us to read both thinkers in new ways. Kant's "Copernican" strategy of grounding knowledge in the limits of human reason proved to stabilize political, social-scientific, and medical expertise as well as philosophical discourse. These inevitable limits were made concrete in historical structures such as the asylum, the prison, and the sexual or racial human body. Such...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027103212X
• ISBN13: 9780271032122
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"