The Foucault Reader

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On sale Nov 12, 1984 | 400 Pages | 9780394713403
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Edited by Paul Rainbow.  Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. The Foucault Reader contains selections from each area of Foucault's work as well as a wealth of previously unpublished writings, including material written especially for this volume, and interviews with Foucault himself. This philosophy comprises an astonishing intellectual enterprise: a minute and ongoing investigation of the nature of power in society.

CONTENTS

Part I: Truth and Method
What is Enlightenment?
Truth and Power
Nietezsche, Genealogy, History
What Is an Author?

Part II: Practices and Knowledge
"Madness and Civilization"
The Great Confinement
The Birth of Asylum

"Disciplines and Sciences of the Individual"
The Body of the Condemned
Docile Bodies
The Means of Correct Training
Panopticism
Complete Austere Institutions
Illegalities and Delinquency
The Carceral
Space, Knowledge, and Power

"Bio-Power"
Right of Death and Power over Life
The Politics of Health in the Eighteenth Century

"Sex and Truth"
We "Other Victorians"
The Repressive Hypothesis

"Practices and Sciences of the Self"
Preface to History of Sexuality, Volume II
On the Genealogy of Ethics: An Overview of Work in Progress
Politics of Ethics: An Interview

Polemics, Politics, and Problemizations: An Interview with Michel Foucault
© Jacques Haillot L'Express, Camera Press London

MICHEL FOUCAULT, one of the leading philosophical thinkers of the 20th century, was born in Poitiers, France, in 1926. He lectured in universities throughout the world; served as director at the Institut Français in Hamburg, Germany and at the Institut de Philosophie at the Faculté des Lettres in the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France; and wrote frequently for French newspapers and reviews. His influence on generations of thinkers in the areas of sociology, queer theory, cultural studies, and critical thinking are not to be underestimated. Among his many books were the Foucault Reader, Society Must Be Defended, and Great Ideas.

At the time of his death in June 1984, he held a chair at France's most prestigious institutions, the Collège de France. Foucault was the first public figure in France to die from HIV/AIDS.

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Edited by Paul Rainbow.  Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. The Foucault Reader contains selections from each area of Foucault's work as well as a wealth of previously unpublished writings, including material written especially for this volume, and interviews with Foucault himself. This philosophy comprises an astonishing intellectual enterprise: a minute and ongoing investigation of the nature of power in society.

CONTENTS

Part I: Truth and Method
What is Enlightenment?
Truth and Power
Nietezsche, Genealogy, History
What Is an Author?

Part II: Practices and Knowledge
"Madness and Civilization"
The Great Confinement
The Birth of Asylum

"Disciplines and Sciences of the Individual"
The Body of the Condemned
Docile Bodies
The Means of Correct Training
Panopticism
Complete Austere Institutions
Illegalities and Delinquency
The Carceral
Space, Knowledge, and Power

"Bio-Power"
Right of Death and Power over Life
The Politics of Health in the Eighteenth Century

"Sex and Truth"
We "Other Victorians"
The Repressive Hypothesis

"Practices and Sciences of the Self"
Preface to History of Sexuality, Volume II
On the Genealogy of Ethics: An Overview of Work in Progress
Politics of Ethics: An Interview

Polemics, Politics, and Problemizations: An Interview with Michel Foucault

Author

© Jacques Haillot L'Express, Camera Press London

MICHEL FOUCAULT, one of the leading philosophical thinkers of the 20th century, was born in Poitiers, France, in 1926. He lectured in universities throughout the world; served as director at the Institut Français in Hamburg, Germany and at the Institut de Philosophie at the Faculté des Lettres in the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France; and wrote frequently for French newspapers and reviews. His influence on generations of thinkers in the areas of sociology, queer theory, cultural studies, and critical thinking are not to be underestimated. Among his many books were the Foucault Reader, Society Must Be Defended, and Great Ideas.

At the time of his death in June 1984, he held a chair at France's most prestigious institutions, the Collège de France. Foucault was the first public figure in France to die from HIV/AIDS.

View titles by Michel Foucault

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