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Foucault’s Culturalist Axiomatic: A Nietzschean Naturalist Rejoinder
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- Title:
- Nietzsche-Studien
- Publication:
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Berlin [u.a.]: de Gruyter
- Note:
- Gesehen am 27.08.2021
- C!URL-Ä(27-01-12)
- Scope:
- Online-Ressource
- ISSN:
- 1613-0790
- ZDB-ID:
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2049671-0
- VÖBB-Katalog:
- 15136767
- Keywords:
- Nietzsche, Friedrich ; Nietzsche, Friedrich ; Zeitschrift ; Online-Ressource ; Zeitschrift ; Zeitschrift ; Online-Publikation
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- Philosophie
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- Foucault’s Culturalist Axiomatic: A Nietzschean Naturalist Rejoinder
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Berlin [u.a.]: de Gruyter, 2025
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- English
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- Abstract: The Nietzsche-Foucault relationship has been the subject of extensive scholarship, highlighting their affinity. In contrast, this paper foregrounds what I take to be their most significant point of divergence: it compares Nietzsche’s naturalist to Foucault’s culturalist axiomatic of power. First, I introduce a minor, naturalist tradition in the philosophy of power that culminates with Nietzsche. Second, I show how Foucault revolutionized the field of political thought and analysis by drawing on Nietzsche’s critique of logocentrism, and in so doing introduced a different and significantly more expansive image of politics. Third, I survey Foucault’s key writings on power to support the claim that the contrast between Nietzsche and Foucault can be described in terms of a contrast between naturalism and culturalism. Finally, I follow this theme in the writings of “new materialist” thinkers and their ambiguous reception of Foucault. Although Foucault is often read as politicizing Nietzsche, his circumscribing of power-relations to intra-human relations alone, and thereby confining politics to human cultures, in effect led to him depoliticizing Nietzsche.
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- Online-Ressource
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- Open Access
- Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet
- Keywords:
- Foucault ; Power ; Politics ; Naturalism ; Culturalism
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- Philosophie
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- 100 Philosophie
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- Philosophie
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- CC BY
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- Free Access
- Title:
- Foucault’s Culturalist Axiomatic: A Nietzschean Naturalist Rejoinder
- Publication:
-
Berlin [u.a.]: de Gruyter, 2025
- Language:
- English
- Information:
- Abstract: The Nietzsche-Foucault relationship has been the subject of extensive scholarship, highlighting their affinity. In contrast, this paper foregrounds what I take to be their most significant point of divergence: it compares Nietzsche’s naturalist to Foucault’s culturalist axiomatic of power. First, I introduce a minor, naturalist tradition in the philosophy of power that culminates with Nietzsche. Second, I show how Foucault revolutionized the field of political thought and analysis by drawing on Nietzsche’s critique of logocentrism, and in so doing introduced a different and significantly more expansive image of politics. Third, I survey Foucault’s key writings on power to support the claim that the contrast between Nietzsche and Foucault can be described in terms of a contrast between naturalism and culturalism. Finally, I follow this theme in the writings of “new materialist” thinkers and their ambiguous reception of Foucault. Although Foucault is often read as politicizing Nietzsche, his circumscribing of power-relations to intra-human relations alone, and thereby confining politics to human cultures, in effect led to him depoliticizing Nietzsche.
- Scope:
- Online-Ressource
- Note:
- Open Access
- Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet
- Keywords:
- Foucault ; Power ; Politics ; Naturalism ; Culturalism
- Classification:
- Philosophie
- DDC Group:
- 100 Philosophie
- Collection:
- Philosophie
- Copyright:
- CC BY
- Accessibility:
- Free Access
