New paper “Revising Foucault: The History and Critique of Modernity”

New paper posted to SSRN by Colin Koopman (UC Santa Cruz)
Abstract:
I propose a major reassessment of Foucault’s philosophico-historical account of the basic problems of modernity. I revise our understanding of Foucault by countering the misinterpretations proffered by influential European critics such as Habermas and Derrida. Central to Foucault’s account of modern [...]