Books by Gary Gutting
Gary Gutting (1942-2019) was a professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He was one of the leading Foucault experts and wrote extensively on French-European philosophy, philosophy of science, and the philosophy of religion. Gutting also published articles for The New York Times and The Stone. His book Talking God: Philosophers on Belief (2016) contains interviews with twelve distinguished philosophers–believers, agnostics, and atheists—on the concept of God and understandings of religion.
“Who was Michel Foucault? At the beginning of my Very Short Introduction, I pose this question and give Foucault’s own answer from his The Archaeology of Knowledge: ‘Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.’ I think, in fact, that for an intellectual like Foucault, the most important story of his life is the story of the books he wrote. That story begins—after some initial existentialist stutters that didn’t turn into his true voice—with his great History of Madness“ Read more...
Gary Gutting, Philosopher
Interviews with Gary Gutting
The best books on Foucault, recommended by Gary Gutting
“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same,” wrote Michel Foucault; a brilliant transdisciplinarian whose work spanned philosophy, history, social theory and literary criticism. He mined past ways of thinking so as to see present-day assumptions and practices afresh, explains the philosopher Gary Gutting.
Interviews where books by Gary Gutting were recommended
The best books on Foucault, recommended by Gary Gutting
“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same,” wrote Michel Foucault; a brilliant transdisciplinarian whose work spanned philosophy, history, social theory and literary criticism. He mined past ways of thinking so as to see present-day assumptions and practices afresh, explains the philosopher Gary Gutting.
