Die daseinsanalytische Anthropologie beim jungen Michel Foucault. Ein unveröffentlichtes Manuskript der 1950er Jahre

Basso, Elisabetta

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“…The reflection on anthropology then arises in continuity with the main thematic axes in the work of the young Foucault, at least on three points: the analysis of Hegel and the posterities of Hegelianism; phenomenology and its philosophical engagement with 'the world'; the history of psychology (Basso, 2007(Basso, , 2019Miotto, 2011). Foucault wrote his first master's thesis on the constitution of the transcendental in Hegel's Phenomenology of the Spirit in 1949 and benefited from the work of important Hegelian thinkers such as Jean Hyppolite.…”

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Foucault and the History of Anthropology: Man, before the ‘Death of Man’

Sforzini

2020

Theory, Culture & Society

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In the unpublished manuscript of a lecture course probably given by Foucault at the École normale supérieure of Paris in 1954–5 (‘On Anthropology’; the dating is still uncertain), Foucault undertakes an erudite and detailed reconstruction of the history of anthropological knowledge, from modernity (Descartes and Malebranche) to 20th-century Nietzschean commentaries (Jaspers and Heidegger), including analyses by Kant, Feuerbach, and Dilthey, among others. My article explores this lecture course to emphasize the importance of anthropological criticism for the young Foucault, addressing in particular the anti-anthropological significance of the encounter with Nietzsche’s philosophy, which becomes an output power ( puissance de sortie) both of the figure of man and the notion of truth in which he was involved. These unpublished manuscripts will therefore allow me to find a common thread in Foucault’s work in the 1950s and 1960s (and even beyond): the exploration of new potentialities for thought opened by ‘the death of man’.

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