Foucault's Legacy

Brief Description: An important collection of essays examining and promoting Foucault's influence on present-day philosophy, in both the analytic and Continental philosophical traditions. Table of Contents: Contributors -- Editor's introduction / C. G. Prado -- 1. The temporality of power / David Couzens Hoy -- 2. A philosophical shock: Foucault reading Nietzsche, reading Heidegger / Babette E. Babich -- 3. Foucault, Hegel, and the death of man / Tom Rockmore -- 4. After knowledge and liberty: Foucault and the new pragmatism / Barry Allen -- 5. Two uses of genealogy: Michel Foucault and Bernard Williams / Colin Koopman -- 6. Weakening ontology through actuality: Foucault and Vattimo / Santiago Zabala -- 7. Foucault, Secularization theory, and the theological origins of totalitarianism / Michael Lackey -- 8. Secular self-sacrifice: on Michel Foucault's courses at the College de France / James Bernauer -- Select bibliography -- Index.

Contributor Bio:  Prado, C G C. G. Prado is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Queen's University, Canada. His previous publications include Starting with Foucault (Westview, 2000), A House Divided: Comparing Analytic and Continental Philosophy (Humanity, 2003), Searle and Foucault on Truth (Cambridge, 2006) and Choosing to Die: Elective Death and Multiculturalism (Cambridge, 2008).