Author(s)

Jan-Erik Lane

University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.

In order to shed new light upon Swedish philosopher Axel H?gerstr?m (1868-1939), Michel Foucault’s key distinction concerning the “ontology of the present” appears very promising. H?gerstr?m published a number of books and articles in both general philosophy and social criticism, the former focussing upon ontology and epistemology, whereas the latter contained a painstaking cultural critique, aiming at demystifying the established moral conceptions, the heralded religion and authoritative law.

Axel Hägerström; Michel Foucault; Max Weber; Karl Marx; Friedrich Nietzsche; Karl R. Popper; Social Philosophy; Cultural Critique; Deconstruction; Bourgeois Ideology; Morals; Religion; Law; Meta-Ethics; Post-Modernism

Lane, J. (2012). Axel Hägerström, Max Weber and Michel Foucault. Sociology Mind, 2, 347-354. doi: 10.4236/sm.2012.24046.