RT Article
T1 The Politics of the Order of Things: Foucault, Sartre, and Deleuze
JF History and theory
VO 55
IS 4
SP 54
OP 65
A1 Gutting, Gary 1942-2019
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1738415910
AB Foucault's histories are typically aimed at what he regarded as intolerable political consequences of knowledge-based disciplines such as psychiatry and medicine. But The Order of Things is hard to fit into this pattern. What are the intolerable political consequences of the metaphysical and epistemological “humanism” the book attacks? To answer this question, I discuss Foucault's attitude toward Sartre and Deleuze, neither mentioned in The Order of Things but both of central importance for understanding its political significance. My conclusion is that the book fails as a political critique of Sartre (and political humanism in general) and instead expresses Foucault's personal ethical preference for Deleuzian limit experiences.
K1 Deleuze
K1 Foucault
K1 Sartre
K1 The Order of Things
K1 Humanism
K1 Political
DO 10.1111/hith.10828