Foucault's alleged irrationalism: The legacy of German romanticism in the thought of Michel Foucault
Idealistic Studies 37 (1):1-13 (2007)
| Abstract | Commentators often construe Foucault as an anti-Enlightenment thinker; much of this criticism assumes that Foucault inherits early German Romanticismin some sense. This essay examines these claims by assessing the role the German Romantics play in Foucault’s work, both early and late. After a briefconsideration of the meaning of the term “Romanticism,” the essay examines the role that language and literature plays in Foucault early texts before examining the place of self-formation or Bildung in his later work. I conclude that examining the relationship between Foucault and the German Romantics can help us betterunderstand Foucault’s texts and thereby avoid what Foucault terms the “blackmail of the Enlightenment,” the idea that one must be either for or against Enlightenment ideals rather than critically interrogating them | |||||||||
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