Routledge Studies in Social and Politica Modernity and Crisis in the Thought of Michel Foucault: The Totality of Reason, (Paperback)

This book addresses Foucault's characterizations of the Enlightenment, asking whether the developmental history of the modern conception of knowledge--from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment--warrants the conclusion he draws. From the perspective of a critical evaluation of Foucault's thesis on "the crisis of modernity," the book examines