Binswanger and Existential Analysis by Foucault, Michel

Binswanger and Existential Analysis (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231195010)

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Binswanger and Existential Analysis by Foucault, Michel

Binswanger and Existential Analysis

$30.00
Binswanger and Existential Analysis by Foucault, Michel

Binswanger and Existential Analysis

$30.00
Format: Paperback
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In the early 1950s, the young Michel Foucault took a keen interest in the method of existential analysis--Daseinsanalyse--developed by the Swiss psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger. He gave a lecture course on this topic at the University of Lille in the spring of 1953 and wrote a detailed introduction to the 1954 French translation of Binswanger's Dream and Existence (1930), in which he promised a forthcoming book that would "situate existential analysis within the development of contemporary reflection on man." This book presents Foucault's unpublished manuscript on Binswanger and existential analysis for the first time in English, offering crucial insight into his intellectual development.

Foucault carries out a systematic examination of Daseinsanalyse, contrasting it with psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and phenomenology and championing its ambition to understand mental illness. In his critique of existential analysis, Foucault began his turn toward emphasizing the primacy of experience, which would lead to the radically new perspective and genealogical methods of The History of Madness and The History of Sexuality. Revealing a little-known influence on Foucault's historicist approach, Binswanger and Existential Analysis reminds us of his unparalleled ability to destabilize our conceptions of self.

Author: Michel Foucault
ISBN-10: 023119501X
ISBN-13: 9780231195010
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/08/2025
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
By Michel Foucault
By Michel Foucault
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Michel Foucault (1926-1984), a French philosopher, historian, and social theorist, was one of the most important figures in twentieth-century thought.

Elisabetta Basso is an assistant professor at the University of Pavia and a member of the Centre d'archives en philosophie, histoire et ?dition des sciences at the ?cole normale sup?rieure of Paris.

Fran?ois Ewald is a political philosopher and historian who oversaw the publication of Foucault's lectures at the Coll?ge de France.

Marie Satya McDonough is a senior lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program and the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Boston University.

Bernard E. Harcourt is a chaired professor at Columbia University and the ?cole des hautes ?tudes en sciences sociales in Paris and has edited a range of works by Foucault in French and English.

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