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Michel Foucault, lecteur de Cassirer

2021 - Bibliopolis

P. 281-300

  • The article shows how Foucault's ethics can be understood as carrying forth Cassirer's philosophy of culture. On the basis of Kant, both authors conceive ethics as a liberation from minority and determinism. Convergences between Cassirer and Foucault can also be pointed out in their views of logic and politics, notably in their approach to the question of modernity and the paradigms of humanities, on the one hand, and that of the complexity of politics, on the other. Background differences of philosophical style remain between the two, specifically between eternally renewed creative interpretation in Cassirer and constant dépassement of the terms of the discours in Foucault. [Publisher's text]

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Cassirer studies : XIII/XIV, 2020/2021