The foucault

The Archaeology of Knowledge : Paperback : Random House USA Inc : 9780394711065 : 0394711068 : 01 Oct 1982 : Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge&;are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works…

With these lectures Foucault inaugurates his investigations of truth-telling in the ethical domain of practices of techniques of the self. How and why, he asks, does the government of men require those subject to power…

`The truth will set you free' is a maxim central to both theories and practices of resistance. Nonetheless, it is a claim that has come under fire from an array of critical perspectives in the second half of the 20th…

The essential one-volume collection of Michel Foucault?s letters, lectures, and interviews, tracing the evolution of the eminent and groundbreaking philosopher?s thought throughout his life ?A rare opportunity to see how…

This volume tracks the crucial role of Reiner Schürmann?s engagement with the work of Michel Foucault between 1983 and 1991. Drawing on Foucault?s highly original reading of the philosophical tradition, Schürmann traces…

Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge was published in March 1969; Discipline and Punish in February 1975. Although only six years apart, the difference in tone is stark: the former is a methodological treatise,…

Based on Michel Foucault's 1978 and 1979 lectures at the College de France on governmental rationalities and his 1977 interview regarding his work on imprisonment, this volume is the long-awaited sequel to Power/…

This book introduces and applies Foucault's key concepts and procedures, specifically for a psychology readership. Drawing on recently published Collège de France lectures, it is useful to those concerned with Foucault's…

In 1978, as the protests against the Shah of Iran reached their zenith, philosopher Michel Foucault was working as a special correspondent for Corriere della Sera and Le Monde. During his little-known stint as a…

The Order of Things : Paperback : Random House USA Inc : 9780679753353 : 0679753354 : 01 Apr 1994 : With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical…

This book addresses the possibilities of analyzing the modern international through the thought of Michel Foucault. The broad range of authors brought together in this volume question four of the most self-evident…

The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon is a reference tool that provides clear and incisive definitions and descriptions of all of Foucault's major terms and influences, including history, knowledge, language, philosophy and…

Foucault at the Movies brings together all of Foucault's commentary on film, some of it available for the first time in English, along with important contemporary analysis and further extensions of this work. It offers…

The Foucault Effect : Paperback : The University of Chicago Press : 9780226080451 : 0226080455 : 01 Aug 1991 : Based on Michel Foucault's 1978 and 1979 lectures at the Collège de France on governmental rationalities and…

What remains constant is that Foucault never stops asking the question of who we are and how we came to be that way. Following Foucault's itinerary from his early history of madness to his recently published Collhge de…

The Government of Self and Others : Paperback : Picador USA : 9780312572921 : 0312572921 : 26 Apr 2011 : This lecture, given by Michel Foucault at the Collège de France, launches an inquiry into the notion of parresia…

The Birth of the Clinic : Paperback : Taylor & Francis Ltd : 9780415307727 : 0415307724 : 01 Sep 2003 : Foucault's classic study of the history of medicine.

The work of Michel Foucault has been extremely influential in fields as varied as philosophy, history, cultural studies, sociology and sexuality studies. In his later work, Foucault turned to the question of ethics.…

Communication technologies, including the internet, social media, and countless online applications create the infrastructure and interface through which many of our interactions take place today. This form of networked…

Michel Foucault's historical and philosophical investigations have gone through many phases: the archaeological, the genealogical, and the ethical among them. What remains constant, however, is the question that…

The Order of Things : Paperback : Taylor & Francis Ltd : 9780415267373 : 0415267374 : 02 Mar 2020 : Possibly one off the most significant yet most overlooked works of the twentieth century, it was The Order of Things…

This is the long-awaited fifth edition of Marshall Sahlins' classic series of bon mots, ruminations, and musings on the ancients, anthropology, and much else in between.

The Hermeneutics of the Subject : Paperback : St Martin's Press : 9780312425708 : 0312425708 : 27 Dec 2005 : The Hermeneutics of the Subject is the third volume in the collection of Michel Foucault's lectures at the…

A new approach to feminism

The issue of the institution is not addressed systematically anywhere in the literature on Foucault, although it is everywhere to be found in Foucault's writings. Foucault and the Critique of Institutions not only…

Foucault saw the notion of parrhesia (truth-telling) as the most important factor for how governments could and should communicate with their people and vice versa. This important collection compiles and analyses…

The fourth and final volume in Michel Foucault's acclaimed History of Sexuality, completed just before his death in 1984 and finally available to the public One of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth…

French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault is essential reading for students in departments of literature, history, sociology and cultural studies. His work on the institutions of mental health and medicine, the…

When one defines 'order' as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature,…

The History of Sexuality, Vol. 3 : Paperback : Random House USA Inc : 9780394741550 : 0394741552 : 28 Nov 1988 : Originally published: New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.

The Foucault Reader : Paperback : Random House USA Inc : 9780394713403 : 0394713400 : 01 Dec 1984 : Michel Foucault was one of the most influential philosophical thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has…

Two hundred and fifty years ago, a man condemned of attempting to assassinate the King of France was drawn and quartered in a grisly spectacle that suggested an unmediated duel between the violence of the criminal and…

The Birth of the Clinic : Paperback : Random House USA Inc : 9780679753346 : 0679753346 : 01 Apr 1994 : In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision…

In the first of his annual series of lectures at the Collège de France, Foucault develops a vigorous Nietzschean history of the will to know through an analysis of changing procedures of truth, legal forms, and class…

Michel Foucault's account of the subject has a double meaning: it relates to both being a 'subject of' and being 'subject to' political forces. This book interrogates the philosophical and political consequences of such…

This lecture, given by Michel Foucault at the Coll ge de France, launches an inquiry into the notion of parresia and continues his rereading of ancient philosophy. Through the study of this notion of truth-telling, of…

Michel Foucault?s The History of Sexuality is one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century and has been instrumental in shaping the study of Gender, Feminist Theory and Queer Theory. But…

This book introduces and applies Foucault's key concepts and procedures, specifically for a psychology readership. Drawing on recently published Collège de France lectures, it is useful to those concerned with Foucault's…

Foucault - The Key Ideas is a concise introduction to the life, works and ideas of this ground-breaking modern philosopher. This book will not only guide you through the events of Foucault's life and help you to…

The Birth of Biopolitics : Paperback : St Martin's Press : 9780312203412 : 0312203411 : 02 Mar 2010 : The sixth volume in Foucault's prestigious, groundbreaking series of lectures at the Collège de France from 1970 to…

In the first of his annual series of lectures at the Collège de France, Foucault develops a vigorous Nietzschean history of the will to know through an analysis of changing procedures of truth, legal forms, and class…