Critique on Foucault’s Book Published in Persian

Date: 17 December 2024 - 22:10

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TEHRAN -- Michel Foucault’s
Archaeology of Scientific Reason: Science and the History of Reason (1989), a critical interpretation of the French philosopher’s work, has been published in Persian.
The book has been translated into Persian by Farhad Ghorbanzadeh Rabati. Tehran-based Karkagadan Publishing has released it in 424 pages.
Through comprehensive and detailed analyses of such important texts as The History of Madness in the Age of Reason, The Birth of the Clinic, The Order of Things, and The Archaeology of Knowledge, the author provides a lucid exposition of Foucault’s “archaeological” approach to the history of thought, a method for uncovering the “unconscious” structures that set boundaries on the thinking of a given epoch.
The book casts Foucault in a new light, relating his work to Gaston Bachelard’s philosophy of science and Georges Canguilhem’s history of science.
This perspective yields a new and valuable understanding of Foucault as a historian and philosopher of science, balancing and complementing the more common view of him as primarily a social critic and theorist.
Gary Gutting is a distinguished academic philosopher and a major contributor to public discussions of philosophical questions.
He has taught for many years at the University of Notre Dame, where he holds the John A. O’Brien Chair in Philosophy.
He is the author of seven academic books and editor of five others, and has published over forty articles. His main areas of research are philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, and twentieth-century French philosophy.