Foucault as Complexity Theorist: Overcoming the conundrums of classical philosophical analysis
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In my book Michel Foucault: Materialism and Education, ( original Bergin &Garvey, 1999: chp. 11; paperback edition, Paradigm Press, 2006) I consider Foucault as a complexity theorist and relate him to contemporary conceptions of complexity as they are being utilised in the physical and social sciences. In order to set the background to a discussion of Foucault as complexity theorist it is necessary to consider briefly his both his appropriation of Nietzsche and his rejection of Marx in relation to the themes of chance and pluralism within his work.
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