Lorenzini's overreach on Foucault (with some Feyerabend and Rorty)
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This is the fourth and (I assume) final post on Daniele Lorenzini’s (2023) The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling (pp. 47-49). (Recall this post; this post; and yesterday’s digression). Throughout the series I have combined admiration for the work with fairly modest (albeit substantive) critical observations. Throughout I have hinted that I think Lorenzini performs an apologia for Foucault to the left and thereby, overplays his hand in the final, fifth chapter. I quote the passage:
Lorenzini's overreach on Foucault (with some Feyerabend and Rorty)
Lorenzini's overreach on Foucault (with some…
Lorenzini's overreach on Foucault (with some Feyerabend and Rorty)
This is the fourth and (I assume) final post on Daniele Lorenzini’s (2023) The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling (pp. 47-49). (Recall this post; this post; and yesterday’s digression). Throughout the series I have combined admiration for the work with fairly modest (albeit substantive) critical observations. Throughout I have hinted that I think Lorenzini performs an apologia for Foucault to the left and thereby, overplays his hand in the final, fifth chapter. I quote the passage: