| 翻訳と辞書 |
| Foucault (book) ： ウィキペディア英語版 |
Foucault (book)
''Foucault'' is a 1985 book about French intellectual Michel Foucault by Brazilian critic and sociologist José Guilherme Merquior, who provides a largely negative evaluation of Foucault's work. The book has received praise from several scholars. ''Foucault'' is part of the Fontana Modern Masters series.
==Summary==
Merquior's evaluation of Foucault's work is largely negative. He argues that Foucault's books and essays were often riddled with major errors of fact and reasoning, seriously (sometimes fatally) weakening Foucault's arguments. For example, Merquior notes that in his first major book, ''Madness and Civilization'' (1961), Foucault argues that in Europe before the Enlightenment madness was relegated to the fringes of society but nonetheless seen as a type of divine wisdom engaged in dialogue with, and pointing out the foibles of, society. However, Merquior suggests that the historical record contradicts Foucault by showing that the insane were often imprisoned and treated cruelly long before the Enlightenment, that English philanthropist William Tuke and French physician Philippe Pinel did not "‘invent’ mental illness" as Foucault claims but rather built on the work of predecessors, and furthermore the motives for creating insane asylums across Europe was nowhere near as uniform as Foucault implies. On balance, Merquior argues, with ''Madness and Civliation'' "Foucault’s epochal monoliths crumble before the contradictory wealth of the historical evidence."〔Merquior 1991. p. 29〕 Merquior compares ''Madness and Civilization'' to Norman O. Brown's ''Life Against Death'' (1959), describing them as similar calls "for the liberation of the Dionysian id."〔Merquior 1991. p. 33〕 Merquior suggests that Foucault's widespread influence in the academic humanities is attributable less to the quality of Foucault's work and more to his fashionable quasi-Marxist habit of "bourgeoisie-bashing".〔Merquior 1991. p. 159.〕
Merquior does offer scattered praise for Foucault's work, describing his early efforts at literary criticism as "brilliant" and "insightful",〔Merquior 1991. p. 164.〕 and applauding his use of obscure historical sources and documents to shed new light on neglected areas of inquiry.〔Merquior 1991. p. 86.〕
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
■ウィキペディアで「Foucault (book)」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|