Reviews
"I was impressed with...Rayner's treatment of the difference between Being and beings. I do not think I have seen a clearer, more succinct explanation." Notre Dame Philosophical Review, "This book is the definitive volume on the connection between the twentieth century's most original philosopher and the most influential French scholar of the late twentieth century. The book thus measures up to its back-cover blurb: it is a landmark and key reference. Moreover, there is an element beyond this, which . . . I believe is very valuable in itself, that flagged by the book's subtitle, "Philosophy and Transformative Experience". In the sections where he fails in my view to convincingly link Foucault to Heidegger, Rayner nevertheless produces an interesting and original reading of Foucault's philosophy." -- Critical Horizons, "I was impressed with...Rayner's treatment of the difference between Being and beings. I do not think I have seen a clearer, more succinct explanation." -- Notre Dame Philosophical Review, "Timothy Rayner has written an important book on a topic that has not been explored in great depth thus far: the profound impact of Martin Heidegger on Foucault's thinking over the course of more than thirty years, from the early 1950's to his death in 1984...Timothy Rayner's Foucault's Heidegger , through its thesis that Foucault's search for a transformative practice, for an experience that transgresses the prevail-ing games of truth, power relations, and modes of subjectivity, is closely linked to Heidegger's own philosophical project and constitutes a link in a chain of thinking that seeks to construct a viable anti-world." --Alan Milchman, Foucault Studies , February 2009, "I was impressed with...Rayner's treatment of the difference between Being and beings. I do not think I have seen a clearer, more succinct explanation." -Notre Dame Philosophical Review, "Timothy Rayner has written an important book on a topic that has not been explored in great depth thus far: the profound impact of Martin Heidegger on Foucault's thinking over the course of more than thirty years, from the early 1950's to his death in 1984...Timothy Rayner's Foucault's Heidegger, through its thesis that Foucault's search for a transformative practice, for an experience that transgresses the prevail-ing games of truth, power relations, and modes of subjectivity, is closely linked to Heidegger's own philosophical project and constitutes a link in a chain of thinking that seeks to construct a viable anti-world." -Alan Milchman, Foucault Studies, February 2009, "Timothy Rayner has written an important book on a topic that has not been explored in great depth thus far: the profound impact of Martin Heidegger on Foucault's thinking over the course of more than thirty years, from the early 1950's to his death in 1984...Timothy Rayner's Foucault's Heidegger , through its thesis that Foucault's search for a transformative practice, for an experience that transgresses the prevail-ing games of truth, power relations, and modes of subjectivity, is closely linked to Heidegger's own philosophical project and constitutes a link in a chain of thinking that seeks to construct a viable anti-world." Alan Milchman, Foucault Studies , February 2009, "This book is the definitive volume on the connection between the twentieth century's most original philosopher and the most influential French scholar of the late twentieth century. The book thus measures up to its back-cover blurb: it is a landmark and key reference. Moreover, there is an element beyond this, which . . . I believe is very valuable in itself, that flagged by the book's subtitle, "Philosophy and Transformative Experience". In the sections where he fails in my view to convincingly link Foucault to Heidegger, Rayner nevertheless produces an interesting and original reading of Foucault's philosophy." Critical Horizons
