Introduction To Kant'S Anthropology Av Michel Foucault

<b>Foucault''s previously unpublished doctoral dissertation on Kant offers the definitive statement of his relationship to Kant and to the critical tradition of philosophy.</b><p>This introduction and commentary to Kant''s least discussed work, <i>Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View</i>, is the dissertation that Michel Foucault presented in 1961 as his doctoral thesis. It has remained unpublished, in any language, until now. </p><p>In his exegesis and critical interpretation of Kant''s <i>Anthropology</i>, Foucault raises the question of the relation between psychology and anthropology, and how they are affected by time. Though a Kantian “critique of the anthropological slumber,” Foucault warns against the dangers of treating psychology as a new metaphysics, explores the possibilities of studying man empirically, and reflects on the nature of time, art and technique, self-perception, and language. Extending Kant''s suggestion that any empirical knowledge of man is i