| dc.description.abstract | In this thesis I will argue that the critical project of Gillian Rose can be read constructively in conjunction with Michel Foucault’s method of genealogical problematisation. Commentators have tended to present Rose’s critical project as entailing a general challenge to the critical projects of “postmodernity”. This way of presenting Rose’s critical project, while not strictly unfounded, has raised, and continues to raise, a number of unfortunate and unnecessary borders between Rose's thought and that of many of her contemporaries. In contrast to the way commentators have tended to present Rose’s critical project, I will present it as entailing, not a general challenge to the critical projects of “postmodernity”, but a specific challenge to Foucault’s method of genealogy. By approaching Rose’s critical project in this specific way, I aim to afford an alternative reading of it – that is, a reading in which Rose’s critical project can be, in part, clarified and supported by Foucault’s method of genealogical problematisation. My hope is that by affording this alternative reading I will open Rose’s critical project up to influence, and be influenced by, number of contemporary debates surrounding the practice of criticism. Specifically, the debates surrounding the relationship between criticism and normativity, debates in which Foucault’s method of genealogy continues to play a vital part. | en_GB |
