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Michel Foucault
Gathers selections from the writings of the modern French philosopher about truth, knowledge, madness, science, sexuality, politics, and ethics.
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Beginning with the emergence of Western penal methods in the seventeenth century, the noted French philosopher explores the role of prisons in society and shows that prisons today, as always…
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Possibly one off the most significant yet most overlooked works of the twentieth century, it was The Order of Things that established Foucault’s reputation as an intellectual giant.
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This volume is a full transcript of the lectures given by Foucault in 1975-76. The main theme of the lectures is the contention that war can be used to analyze…
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Originally published in the U.S. by Pantheon Books, in 1965 –T.p. verso.
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In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II.
Offers an account of the emergence of Christianity from the Ancient World. Foucault describes the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex and…
Maddalena Cerrato
Offers a wholistic approach to Michel Foucault's thought introducing the idea of practical philosophy as an original interpretative framework.
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Covers the topics Foucault helped make the core agenda of Western political culture - medicine, prisons, psychiatry, government and sexuality - emphasising Foucault’s practical concern with discrimination, coercion and exclusion…
Study of the intersection of history and philosophy as it relates to recent French political change, evidenced in essays concerning popular justice, power struggles, and the history of sexuality.
Collecting the writings and interviews of Michel Foucault outside his published monographs, this work contains Foucault’s summaries of the highly influential courses he taught at the College de France from…
Here, one of France’s greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic and political forces that have shaped our attitudes to sex. Foucault describes how we are in the process of…
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Written by a sociologist and historian of ideas whose works include Madness and Civilization , The Archaeology of Knowledge , The Birth of the Clinic and Discipline and Punish .
Presents a collection of Michel Foucault’s articles, interviews and seminars. This work focuses primarily upon the philosophy, literature and other works of the imagination which have informed Foucault’s particular engagement…
This book makes available, for the first time in English, lectures and interviews that Foucault gave in Japan in 1978, reconstructing their context, and isolating the question of their singular…
Rafael Furtado
Modernity is marked by the development of knowledge and techniques designed to direct the behaviour of individuals and populations. In order to reflect on the effects of this development, this…
Alan Dos Santos
This work - made up of three complementary philosophical essays - aims, based on Michel Foucault, but also Deleuze and other philosophers, to create a possible fold between subjectivity and…
Kelvin Custodio Maciel
Philosopher Michel Foucault's genealogical method called into question the sovereignty and universalism of the modern subject. Thus, this subject, crossed by complex power-knowledge relations, is more attentive to the effects…
Begins in the Middle Ages with vivid descriptions of the exclusion and confinement of lepers. Why, the author asks, when the leper houses were emptied at the end of the…
Michel Foucault’s work on freedom, subjectivity, and power is now central to thinking across a range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, education, psychology, politics, anthropology, sociology, and criminology. This book…
Jimenez Lopez
The texts gathered in the present book represent the readings of reality felt in the present that have motivated their integration precisely because this year is the 40th anniversary of…
Michel Foucault,A. M. Sheridan
Foucault’s classic study of the history of medicine.
The final, previously unpublished volume of one of the twentieth century’s seminal works
Foucault’s History of Sexuality changed the way we think about power, selfhood and sexuality. In this fourth…
An exciting and highly original examination of the practices of truth-telling and speaking out freely (parresia) in ancient Greek tragedy and philosophy. Foucault discusses the difficult and changing practices of…
Mariana Valverde
This book explores the contribution of Michel Foucault to criminology, law and justice, surveying both the ways in which his work has been applied in criminology, but also how it…
Hans-Herbert Koegler
Schon zu Lebzeiten ein Kult: Michel Foucault. Die Rezeption seines Werks setzte bereits vor seinem Tod ein und ist bis jetzt, 20 Jahre spater, standig gewachsen. Grund genug fur eine…
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Dr Lynn Fendler
Michael Foucault is undisputedly a major thinker in education. This title offers the coherent account of Foucault’s educational thought. It is divided into: intellectual bibliography; critical exposition of Foucault’s work…
Sara Mills (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
Sara Mills offers an introduction to both the ideas of Michel Foucault and the debate surrounding him, fully equipping student readers for an encounter with this most influential of thinkers.
This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to, and overview of, the development of Foucault’s thought and demonstrates its enduring significance on our understanding of how we have become what we…
Sara Mills
Focuses on the analysis of the relations of power and knowledge and modes of objectification through which human beings are made subjects; and addresses controversial issues concerning the state and…
Hubert Dreyfus,Paul Rabinow
First Published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Clare O'Farrell
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Offers a comprehensive introduction to Michel Foucault’s enormous, diverse and challenging output. This book provides practical tools and a reference work for readers who wish to understand and apply his…
Christopher Mark Watkin
Michel Foucault is, by some measures, the single most cited author across the arts and humanities today. His work continues to exert a deep and broad influence in disciplines as…
David Macey
Throughout most of his career, Michel Foucault consistently refused to say much about himself and was reluctant to be defined in either professional or personal terms. His stance was ‘Do…
Alan Sheridan (London, UK)
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The most comprehensive study of the controversial French thinker–and of his place in the history of philosophy. As public as Foucault was in his militant campaigns on behalf of prisoners…
James E. Miller,Miller
Based on extensive new research and a bold interpretation of the man and his texts, The Passion of Michel Foucault is a startling look at one of this century’s most…
James Miller
The first detailed account of Foucault’s lifelong obsession with death, suicide, drugs, and sadomasochistic eroticism, James Miller’s impressively documented study is a provocative exploration of the life and work of…
Philip Barker
This multi-disciplinary textbook is aimed at the beginning student and opens up the world of Foucault’s thoughts on power and knowledge, discipline and punishment, history and the subject in an…
The classic biography of the radical French philosopher
La collection Connaitre une oeuvre vous offre la possibilite de tout savoir de l'Histoire de la folie de Michel Foucault, grace a une fiche de lecture aussi complete que detaillee…
