Maturity and Modernity: Nietzsche, Weber, Foucault and the Ambivalence of Reason

by David Owen

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.

Genres: Philosophy, History

268 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

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Writer on political and social issues.

I was brought up in Africa, the UK, and South East Asia. I undertook both my undergraduate and postgraduates degrees at the University of Durham. I have taught at the University of Southampton since 1995 and also been visiting professor at the JW Goethe University, Frankfurt a/M, and at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton.