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Comments on Tuomo Tiisala, “Overcoming ‘The Present Limits of the Necessary’: Foucault's Conception of a Critique”
Author(s) -
HuffOwen Maia Nahele
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the southern journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2041-6962
pISSN - 0038-4283
DOI - 10.1111/sjp.12234
Subject(s) - virtue , epistemology , task (project management) , philosophy , sociology , michel foucault , politics , law , political science , management , economics
Three questions animate Tuomo Tiisala's essay, “Overcoming ‘the Present Limits of the Necessary’: Foucault's Conception of a Critique”: What is the task of critique, as Foucault describes it? What is it about reason that necessitates such a task? And what is it that could motivate the critical attitude as a virtue?