Daniel_Cheung
01-30-2009, 11:51 PM
Marc Djaballah, Kant, Foucault, and Forms of Experience, Routledge, 2008, 348pp., $105.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780415956246.
http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=15127
Reviewed by Johanna Oksala, University of Dundee
In this erudite study, Marc Djaballah analyses the specific character of Foucault's Kantianism. Despite the title suggesting that equal weight is given to Kant and Foucault, the book is primarily a contribution to Foucault scholarship attempting to show the extent of Foucault's proximity and debt to Kant. The main argument about their relationship takes the form of a structural reconstruction: Djaballah argues that the formal structure of their discursive practice -- the practice of criticism -- is the same. He analyses Foucault's Kantianism in formal terms by identifying his historical studies as an exercise of Kantian criticism....
http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=15127
Reviewed by Johanna Oksala, University of Dundee
In this erudite study, Marc Djaballah analyses the specific character of Foucault's Kantianism. Despite the title suggesting that equal weight is given to Kant and Foucault, the book is primarily a contribution to Foucault scholarship attempting to show the extent of Foucault's proximity and debt to Kant. The main argument about their relationship takes the form of a structural reconstruction: Djaballah argues that the formal structure of their discursive practice -- the practice of criticism -- is the same. He analyses Foucault's Kantianism in formal terms by identifying his historical studies as an exercise of Kantian criticism....