Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
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Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics is an influential scholarly book that critically interprets and situates Michel Foucault’s thought in relation to structuralism, hermeneutics, and contemporary social theory.
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Target entity: Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics Context triple: [Paul Rabinow, notableWork, Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics]
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Michel Foucault et ses contemporains
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
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A New Critique of Theoretical Thought
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Writing and Difference
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics Target entity description: Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics is an influential scholarly book that critically interprets and situates Michel Foucault’s thought in relation to structuralism, hermeneutics, and contemporary social theory.
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A.
Michel Foucault et ses contemporains
Michel Foucault et ses contemporains is a critical study by Didier Eribon that situates Michel Foucault’s thought in relation to the major intellectual and political debates of his time.
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B.
Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond
"Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond" is a critical study by Douglas Kellner that examines and contextualizes Jean Baudrillard’s intellectual development from his early Marxist influences to his later postmodern and poststructuralist theories.
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C.
The Sublime Object of Ideology
The Sublime Object of Ideology is a 1989 philosophical work by Slavoj Žižek that applies Lacanian psychoanalysis to Marxist theory to explore how ideology structures subjectivity and social reality.
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D.
A New Critique of Theoretical Thought
A New Critique of Theoretical Thought is a major philosophical work by Dutch philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd that presents his reformational critique of Western theoretical thought and develops his influential modal theory of reality.
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E.
Writing and Difference
Writing and Difference is a seminal collection of essays by Jacques Derrida that helped establish deconstruction by critically engaging with structuralism, phenomenology, and the history of Western philosophy.
- F. None of above. chosen
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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scholarly monograph ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
anthropology
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history of ideas ⓘ philosophy ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
| author |
Hubert L. Dreyfus
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linked to:
Hubert Dreyfus
Paul Rabinow ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| critiques |
hermeneutic approaches to meaning
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structuralism ⓘ |
| examinesConcept |
biopolitics
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discipline ⓘ discourse ⓘ knowledge ⓘ power ⓘ the subject ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Foucault's archaeology
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Foucault's genealogy ⓘ contemporary social theory ⓘ hermeneutics ⓘ interpretation of Foucault ⓘ power/knowledge ⓘ structuralism ⓘ subjectivity ⓘ |
| genre |
intellectual history
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philosophy ⓘ social theory ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
critical interpretation of hermeneutics
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critical interpretation of structuralism ⓘ post-structuralist reading of Foucault ⓘ |
| influencedField |
Foucauldian studies
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linked to:
Foucauldian analysis
anthropology ⓘ cultural studies ⓘ philosophy of the social sciences ⓘ social theory ⓘ |
| interpretsWorkOf | Michel Foucault ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Michel Foucault ⓘ |
| notableFor |
popularizing Foucault in the Anglo-American academy
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situating Foucault between structuralism and hermeneutics ⓘ systematic interpretation of Michel Foucault's work ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
continental philosophy
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hermeneutics ⓘ post-structuralism ⓘ structuralism ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
graduate students
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researchers in social theory ⓘ scholars ⓘ |
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