Genealogy as critique: Foucault and the problems of modernity

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Acknowledgments Introduction: What Genealogy Does 1. Critical Historiography: Politics, Philosophy & Problematization 2. Three Uses of Genealogy: Subversion, Vindication & Problematization 3. What Problematization Is: Contingency, Complexity & Critique 4. What Problematization Does: Aims, Sources & Implications 5. Foucault's Problematization of Modernity: The Reciprocal Incompatibility of Discipline and Liberation 6. Foucault's Reconstruction of Modern Moralities: An Ethics of Self-Transformation 7. Problematization plus Reconstruction: Genealogy, Pragmatism & Critical Theory Notes Bibliography Index