Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism And Herme... Page

: Looking at human behavior as a series of rigid, rule-governed systems where individual meaning didn't matter.

: Searching for deep, hidden meanings within human traditions and the subject's soul. Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Herme...

In the late 1970s, two scholars— Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow —met at a seminar that would change how the world understood one of France's most complex thinkers. They were debating Michel Foucault, a man whose work was so original it resisted being filed under any single label. Out of their disagreement grew the book , a work Foucault himself praised as "very clear and intelligent". The Intellectual Dilemma : Looking at human behavior as a series

Dreyfus and Rabinow realized Foucault didn't fit either. He was too detached to be a traditional seeker of meaning, yet too focused on historical change to be a pure structuralist. The Breakthrough: Interpretive Analytics They were debating Michel Foucault, a man whose

The authors argued that Foucault had created a third way, which they called . This new method allowed him to:

At the time, two major ways of studying humans dominated the academic landscape: