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Tuomo Tiisala, Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons: Elaborating Foucault’s Pragmatism, Routledge, 2024, 148pp., $152.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781032671376.
Reviewed by Colin Koopman, University of Oregon
Tuomo Tiisala’s Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons: Elaborating Foucault’s Pragmatism (PFSR) is a book that is simultaneously inspired and dispiriting. Tiisala’s offering is one of the most sustained efforts to date in bringing Michel Foucault’s philosophical insights into conversation with the riches of analytical philosophy. Tiisala has mastered a number of important tendencies in both recent analytical philosophy as well as in the dense thickets of Foucault’s own philosophical investigations. He has also mastered systematic philosophical perspectives as seemingly disparate as those of Robert Brandom’s rationalist pragmatism and Foucault’s philosophical archaeology. This mastery of multiple approaches to systematic philosophy tees up a number of philosophical interventions that readers will find most interesting. Surely the standout among Tiisala’s interpretive insights is that Foucault’s…
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