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Tag Archives: Foucault
Habermas’ Foucault — The Debate that Never Was (Part II)
As I discussed in my previous post, what has come to known as the “Foucault/Habermas Debate” has largely been the creation of parties other than Foucault and Habermas. They met only once, in March 1983, when Habermas visited Paris to … Continue reading
Foucault, Habermas, and the Debate That Never Was
For the last thirty years my filing cabinet has contained two letters dating from the fall of 1983: one from Jürgen Habermas, the other from Michel Foucault. They were written in response to my attempt to see if they would … Continue reading
On Foucault’s Review of Cassirer’s Philosophy of the Enlightenment
It is unfortunate that no one has gotten around to translating Michel Foucault’s 1966 review of the French translation of Ernst Cassirer’s Philosophie der Aufklärung.1 Granted, it is a short text and – prior to its reprinting in Foucault’s Dits … Continue reading
Out of Unmündigkeit – Final Thoughts on Translating Kant on Enlightenment
I will take my leave from this series of posts on the translation of the first sentence of Kant’s answer to the question “What is enlightenment?” with a consideration of how translators have handled Ausgang,the word that characterizes the passage … Continue reading
