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Maturity and Modernity is the first book to analyze Nietzsche, Weber and Foucault as a tradition of theorising and to chart the development of genealogy as a mode of critique. It provides clear accounts of the main ideas of Nietzsche, Weber and Foucault (as well as a useful Glossary) and illustrates the relations between these thinkers at methodological, substantive and politcal levels.

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• Introduction
• Kant and the question of maturity
• Nietzsche the transformation of critique
• Nietzsche and genealogy
• The genealogy of modernity: Nietszche, asceticism and nihilism
• The politics of the Ubermensch: Nietzsche, maturity and modernity Weber genealogy as cultural science: Weber, methodology and critique
• The genealogy of modernity: Weber, asceticism and disenchantment The politics of "personality"
• Weber, maturity and modernity Foucault genealogy as historical ontology: Foucault, methodology and critique
• The genealogy of modernity: Foucault, humanism and biopolitics
• The politics of critique: Foucault, maturity and modernity
• Conclusion

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CHOICE Review

Owen's book is a welcome addition to the debate concerning the status of reason in Continental thought. Owen places this debate in the context of the theme of maturity, by which is meant the autonomy of a self-determining reason. Owen argues that Kant's critical project results in an unsolved antinomy (at least unsolved by Kant) wherein reason is necessarily autonomous and ahistorical as well as historical because of its finitude. As a consequence of this problem, Owen claims that post-Kantian thought is confronted with the task of accounting for the historical specificity of reason itself; and this is precisely the task he sees Nietzsche, Weber, and Foucault working on. The exegesis of these three thinkers is, in general, fairly clear and should be accessible to readers with at least some familiarity with the concerns of modern philosophy. Recommended to undergraduate and graduate students as supplemental reading. J. A. Bell; Southeastern Louisiana University

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David Owen is on the staffs of both The New Yorker and Golf Digest. A frequent contributor to The Atlantic Monthly, and the author of nine previous books, he lives in Washington, Connecticut.

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