CRITICAL ATTITUDE

"The practice of “critique” in the thought of Michel Foucault: historical, political and ethical dimensions."

 Coordinatore THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK 

 Organization address address: Kirby Corner Road - University House -
city: COVENTRY
postcode: CV4 8UW

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Peter
Cognome: Hedges
Email: send email
Telefono: -11348
Fax: -12623

 Nazionalità Coordinatore United Kingdom [UK]
 Totale costo 83˙770 €
 EC contributo 83˙770 €
 Programma FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF
 Funding Scheme MC-IEF
 Anno di inizio 2010
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2010-09-01   -   2011-08-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK

 Organization address address: Kirby Corner Road - University House -
city: COVENTRY
postcode: CV4 8UW

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Peter
Cognome: Hedges
Email: send email
Telefono: -11348
Fax: -12623

UK (COVENTRY) coordinator 83˙770.40

Mappa


 Word cloud

Esplora la "nuvola delle parole (Word Cloud) per avere un'idea di massima del progetto.

foucault    configurations    archaeological    philosopher    he    world    light    power    definition    modes    theoretical    questioning    critique    subjectivation    historical    genealogical    critical   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Over the last few years of his research, Michel Foucault developed a new definition of “critique”. In his opinion, the current task of philosophical research is to take a specific “critical attitude”. It must consist of a lucid questioning of the present and the deliberate undertaking, on the part of the philosopher, to accomplish a task in the current time. Thus, Foucault makes consistent theoretical sense of all of his earlier historical inquiries and of his genealogical and archaeological method. These had, in fact, shed light on the historical conditions for the emergence of the current configurations of knowledge and power and the modes of subjectivation. From this point of view, then, they constitute a questioning of our present. From this questioning derives the task that the philosopher must undertake: after throwing light on our historical limits, he must show the possibility of going beyond them. He must indicate those points whereby a change of the current configurations of knowledge, power, and the modes of subjectivation, becomes possible. My purpose is to explore Foucault’s idea of “critique” and to throw light on the relations that it has with Foucault’s method (archaeological and genealogical) and theoretical goals (“a critical ontology of ourselves”). What I shall try to do is to look at the three major series of elements that Foucault channels into his definition of critique (elements of the ancient world, interpretation of Kant’s writings and elements of aesthetics and literature). After looking at the way Foucault builds this concept, it will be necessary to understand how Foucault relates it with the knowledge and power systems and the modes of subjectivation that he describes. Finally, we will have to verify whether this method could still be effective nowadays, in our contemporary world.'

Altri progetti dello stesso programma (FP7-PEOPLE)

HISLA-DR (2011)

Hydrogen Incorporation in Subducting Lithosphere after Dehydration Reactions

Read More  

SOX (2015)

The role of Sox2 in epithelial homeostasis and cancer

Read More  

THROUGHFLOW (2010)

Cenozoic evolution of the Indonesian Throughflow and the origins of Indo-Pacific marine biodiversity: Mapping the biotic response to environmental change

Read More