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Gutting, Gary - Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Science

This document provides summaries of 5 books on postmodern French theorists: 1) Kevin Hart's "The Trespass of the Sign" argues that deconstruction seeks a viewpoint where metaphysics is structured by otherness rather than identity. 2) Elizabeth Grosz's "Jacques Lacan" introduces Lacan from a feminist perspective, placing him in the contexts of Freud and French intellectual debates. 3) Gary Gutting's "Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason" provides a critical interpretation of Foucault's method of uncovering the unconscious structures that shape epochs of thought. 4) Mary Wiseman's "The Ecstasies of Roland Barthes

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Gutting, Gary - Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Science

This document provides summaries of 5 books on postmodern French theorists: 1) Kevin Hart's "The Trespass of the Sign" argues that deconstruction seeks a viewpoint where metaphysics is structured by otherness rather than identity. 2) Elizabeth Grosz's "Jacques Lacan" introduces Lacan from a feminist perspective, placing him in the contexts of Freud and French intellectual debates. 3) Gary Gutting's "Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason" provides a critical interpretation of Foucault's method of uncovering the unconscious structures that shape epochs of thought. 4) Mary Wiseman's "The Ecstasies of Roland Barthes

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HART, KEVIN. The Trespass of the Sign: Deconstmction. Theologu.

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Philosophy. Cambridge University Press. 1989. 280 pp.

"Jacques Derrida's theory of deconstruction has commonly been pictured as


a clirect attack against philosophy and as acelebration of God's death. Yet
almost as frequently. it has been criticized as a displaced negative theology,
a quest for a deep truth beyond all categories of being and non-being. This
book argues that neither view is correct. Deconstruction, in Dr. Hart's
analysis. seeks avantage point from which metaphysics is seen to be
structured by alterity rather than identity.1I

GROSZ. ELlZABETH. Jacgues Lacan. Routledge. (forthcoming 1990).280 pp.

"Jacques Lacan is the first introduction to Lacan from a specifically


feminist perspective. Assuming no previous lmowledge of psychoanalysis
cr French theory, this volurne places Lacan in the context ofFreud's writings
and the contemporary debates in French intellectual and political life."

GUTTING. GARY. Michel Foucault's Archaeoloav of Scientific Reason.


Cambridge University Press, 19889, c. 250 pp.

"This is an important introduction to and critical interpretation of the


work of the major French thinker. Michel Foucault. Through comprehensive
and detailed analyses of such important texts as The History of Madness in
the Me of reason. The Birth of the Clinic. The Order of Things. and The
Archaeology of Knowledge. the author provides a lucid exposition of
Foucault's 'archaeo- logical' approach to the history of thought, a method
for uncovering the 'unconscious' structures that set boundaries on the
thinking pf a given epoche The book casts Foucault in a new light. relating
his work to Bachelard's philosophy of science and Georges Canguilhen' s
history of science. This perspective yields a new and valuable
understanding of Foucault as a historian and philospher of science.
balancing and complementing the more common view of him as primarily
a social critic and theorist."

WISEMAN. MARY. The Ecstasies of Roland Barthes. Routledge, 1989,208


pp.

'With her insistent pushing against the boundaries of our standard


academic assumptions. Mary Bittner WlSeman succeeds in interpreting
Barthes'· effort to join the traditional and the new. She clarifies the inner
dynamics of his career and focuses on the project goveming his last works.
\cornbining an acute sense of his individual achievement with a clear grasp
of how he represents significant cultural movements."

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