Foucault Steps Out to the Ballpark Open Access
Schwartz, Scott Tyler (2011)
Abstract
Abstract
Foucault Steps Out to the Ballpark
By Scott Schwartz
This is a study of applied philosophy. In it, I use Michel
Foucault's methods of historical
analysis, which he calls archaeology and genealogy, to rediscover
the history of Major
League Baseball. This Foucauldian history will allow me to dive
deeper than would a
standard history of ideas, and from a submerged structural level,
let me reveal new truths
about the game and its storied history. Hopefully, then, armed with
new knowledge from
a new vantage point, I can offer a statement about the status of
baseball's current game.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1
Chapter 1- Opening Foucault's
Toolbox----------------------------------------------------------3
Archaeological
History---------------------------------------------------------------------3
The Counterpart to Archaeology:
Genealogy------------------------------------------11
The Fusion of the Two
Histories--------------------------------------------------------13
Deriving
Power-Knowledge--------------------------------------------------------------20
Chapter 2- A Foucauldian Analysis of Major League
Baseball------------------------------23
The Thinking Man's
Game---------------------------------------------------------------25
The Spectacle of the Scaffold: Baseball in the Modern
Episteme------------------32
The Limits of the Modern Episteme: Baseball Enters the
Post-Modern-----------38
Chapter 3- Where Baseball
Deviates-------------------------------------------------------------46
Baseball versus the
Post-Modern--------------------------------------------------------47
The Person or the
Player------------------------------------------------------------------52
Conclusion-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------55
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