Binswanger and Existential Analysis

di Michel Foucault (Autore)

Elisabetta Basso (Curatore)

Marie Satya McDonough (Traduttore)

Columbia University Press, 2025

In the early 1950s, the young Michel Foucault took a keen interest in the method of existential analysis—Daseinsanalyse—developed by the Swiss psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger. He gave a lecture course on this topic at the University of Lille in the spring of 1953 and wrote a detailed introduction to the 1954 French translation of Binswanger’s Dream and Existence (1930), in which he promised a forthcoming book that would “situate existential analysis within the development of contemporary reflection on man.” This book presents Foucault’s unpublished manuscript on Binswanger and existential analysis for the first time in English, offering crucial insight into his intellectual development. Foucault carries out a systematic examination of Daseinsanalyse, contrasting it with psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and phenomenology and championing its ambition to understand mental illness. In his critique of existential analysis, Foucault began his turn toward emphasizing the primacy of experience, which would lead to the radically new perspective and genealogical methods of The History of Madness and The History of Sexuality. Revealing a little-known influence on Foucault’s historicist approach, Binswanger and Existential Analysis reminds us of his unparalleled ability to destabilize our conceptions of self.

• Autore: Michel Foucault
• Traduttore: Marie Satya McDonough
• Curatore: Elisabetta Basso
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Collana: Foucault's Early Lectures and Manuscripts
• Anno: 2025
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 336 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• EAN: 9780231195010

Testo in English