{"product_id":"ontology-of-the-present-arianna-bove-9798273275423","title":"Ontology of the Present: Michel Foucault, philosophy, and subjectivity","description":"This book offers a re-examination of Michel Foucault's philosophical project through his engagement with Immanuel Kant's question, \u003ci\u003eWhat is Enlightenment?\u003c\/i\u003e The book traces how Foucault transforms Kant's critical inquiry into a historically grounded ontology of the present - a philosophical attitude that seeks to diagnose it rather than explain it through an appeal to universals.\u003cbr\u003eBove situates Foucault's work within a broad intellectual constellation - from Formalism and Structuralist linguistics to the historiographical innovations of the \u003ci\u003eAnnales School\u003c\/i\u003e, and from early anthropological debates to theories of subjectivity that have emerged out of Autonomist Marxism. She argues that Foucault's method is best understood as a practice of critique: a way of thinking historically about what we are and how we might be otherwise.\u003cbr\u003eThe book unfolds in three major parts. The first reconstructs Foucault's early epistemological foundations by examining his dialogue with Formalism, linguistics, and the historical turn of the \u003ci\u003eAnnales\u003c\/i\u003e historians. The second explores his later investigations into technologies of the self, spirituality, and aesthetics of existence as \u003ci\u003edéprise de soi\u003c\/i\u003e, as they lay the foundations for a positive ontology of freedom. The final part connects these insights to contemporary theories of Autonomist Marxism, demonstrating how Foucault's thought remains indispensable for understanding power, production, and subjectivity in the 21st century.\u003cbr\u003eUltimately, Bove presents Foucault's ontology of the present not as a doctrine but as a critical ethos - a philosophical project that has the courage to interrogate our historical conditions and to imagine new forms of being.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Arianna Bove\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798273275423\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/06\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.52d","brand":"Arianna Bove","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48137244147967,"sku":"9798273275423","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9a038ebe-1b93-4fba-b51c-e66252d80d00.jpg?v=1770167533","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ontology-of-the-present-arianna-bove-9798273275423","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}