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Author : Marshall Sahlins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : 0996635548
"First edition published as Waiting for Foucault in 1993 by Prickly Pear Press; second edition, 1996, third edition, 1999. Fourth edition published as Waiting for Foucault, still in 2002 by Prickly Paradigm Press."--Title page verso.
Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1991-07-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226080455
Based on Foucault's 1978 and 1979 lectures on rationalities of government, this work examines the art or activity of government and the different ways in which it has been made thinkable and practicable. There are also contributions of other scholars exploring modern manifestations of government.
Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134499137
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, art, economics and even biology in The Order of Things, possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the twentieth century. Eclipsed by his later work on power and discourse, nonetheless it was The Order of Things that established Foucault's reputation as an intellectual giant. Pirouetting around the outer edge of language, Foucault unsettles the surface of literary writing. In describing the limitations of our usual taxonomies, he opens the door onto a whole new system of thought, one ripe with what he calls "exotic charm". Intellectual pyrotechnics from the master of critical thinking, this book is crucial reading for those who wish to gain insight into that odd beast called Postmodernism, and a must for any fan of Foucault.
Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1984-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780394713403
Michel Foucault was one of the most influential philosophical 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. But of his many books, not one offers a satisfactory introduction to the entire complex body of his work. The Foucault Reader was commissioned precisely to serve that purpose. The Reader contains selections from each area of Foucault's work as well as a wealth of previously unpublished writings, including important material written especially for this volume, the preface to the long-awaited second volume of The History of Sexuality, and interviews with Foucault himself, in the course of which he discussed his philosophy at first hand and with unprecedented candor. This philosophy comprises an astonishing intellectual enterprise: a minute and ongoing investigation of the nature of power in society. Foucault's analyses of this power as it manifests itself in society, schools, hospitals, factories, homes, families, and other forms of organized society are brought together in The Foucault Reader to create an overview of this theme and of the broad social and political vision that underlies it.
Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231551168
Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality—the first volume of which was published in 1976—exerts a vast influence across the humanities and social sciences. However, Foucault’s interest in the history of sexuality began as early as the 1960s, when he taught two courses on the subject. These lectures offer crucial insight into the development of Foucault’s thought yet have remained unpublished until recently. This book presents Foucault’s lectures on sexuality for the first time in English. In the first series, held at the University of Clermont-Ferrand in 1964, Foucault asks how sexuality comes to be constituted as a scientific body of knowledge within Western culture and why it derived from the analysis of “perversions”—morbidity, homosexuality, fetishism. The subsequent course, held at the experimental university at Vincennes in 1969, shows how Foucault’s theories were reoriented by the events of May 1968; he refocuses on the regulatory nature of the discourse of sexuality and how it serves economic, social, and political ends. Examining creators of political and literary utopias in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from Sade to Fourier to Marcuse, who attempted to integrate “natural” sexualities, including transgressive forms, into social and economic life, Foucault elaborates a double critique of the naturalization and the liberation of sexuality. Together, the lectures span a range of interests, from abnormality to heterotopias to ideology, and they offer an unprecedented glimpse into the evolution of Foucault’s transformative thinking on sexuality.
Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307819291
A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
Author : Arnold Ira Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015041041255
This volume also includes several important works by Foucault previously unpublished in English.
Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Random House
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448181988
Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries, thinking they are creating nothing more than an amusing game, but then their game starts to take over, the deaths start mounting, and they are forced into a frantic search for the truth
Author : David Macey
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781788731065
The classic biography of the radical French philosopher with a new afterword by acclaimed Foucault scholar Stuart Elden. When he died of an AIDS-related condition in 1984, Michel Foucault had become the most influential French philosopher since the end of World War II. His powerful studies of the creation of modern medicine, prisons, psychiatry, and other methods of classification have had a lasting impact on philosophers, historians, critics, and novelists the world over. But as public as he was in his militant campaigns on behalf of prisoners, dissidents, and homosexuals, he shrouded his personal life in mystery. In The Lives of Michel Foucault -- written with the full cooperation of Daniel Defert, Foucault's former lover -- David Macey gives the richest account to date of Foucault's life and work, informed as it is by the complex issues arising from his writings. In this new edition, Foucault scholar Stuart Elden has contributed a new afterword assessing the contribution of the biography in the light of more recent literature.
Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1980-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780394739540
Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History of Sexuality. But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind these difficult individual studies, thus losing sight of the broad social vision and political aims that unified them. Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent -- and terrifying -- portrait of society that he was patiently compiling. For, as Foucault shows, what he was always describing was the nature of power in society; not the conventional treatment of power that concentrates on powerful individuals and repressive institutions, but the much more pervasive and insidious mechanisms by which power "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives" Foucault's investigations of prisons, schools, barracks, hospitals, factories, cities, lodgings, families, and other organized forms of social life are each a segment of one of the most astonishing intellectual enterprises of all time -- and, as this book proves, one which possesses profound implications for understanding the social control of our bodies and our minds.
Author : Johanna Oksala
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847086877
Michel Foucault was a twentieth-century philosopher of extraordinary talent, a political activist, social theorist, cultural critic and creative historian. He shaped the ways we think today about such controversial issues as power, sexuality, madness and criminality. Johanna Oksala explores the conceptual tools that Foucault gave us for constructing new forms of thinking as well as for smashing old certainties. She offers a lucid account of him as a thinker whose persistent aim was to challenge the self-evidence and seeming inevitability of our current experiences, practices and institutions by showing their historical development and, therefore, contingency. Extracts are taken from the whole range of Foucault's writings - his books, essays, lectures and interviews - including the major works History of Madness,The Order of Things, Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality.
Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131659844
"In his critical interpretation of Kant's Anthropology, Michel Foucault warns against the dangers of treating psychology as a new metaphysics. Instead, he explores the possibility of studying man empirically as he is affected by time, art and technique, self-perception, and language. If man is both the condition for knowledge and its ultimate object, any empirical knowledge of man is inextricably tied up with language. Far from being a study of self-consciousness, anthropology is a way of questioning the limits of human knowledge and concrete existence." "Long unknown to Foucault readers, this text offers the first outline of what would later become Foucault's own frame of reference within the history of philosophy. Standing at a crossroad of his ouevre, it allows us to look back on Madness and Civilization while it sketches out the relationship between discourse and truth developed in The Order of Things. This "introduction" finally announces what will be considered the most scandalous aspect of Foucault's thought: the death of man, but also the joyous advent of the Ubermensch, the philosopher-artist capable of creating vital values."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Michel Foucault,Paul Rabinow,Nikolas S. Rose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1565848012
Few philosophers have had as significant an impact on contemporary thought as Michel Foucault. Rabinow has collected the best pieces from his three-volume set into a one-volume anthology.
Author : Marshall Sahlins
Publisher : Prickly Pear (UK)
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:30000060956590
With typical brilliance and wit, renowned anthropologist Marshall Sahlins takes a critical and satirical look at all things Foucault -- and plenty more to boot. This pamphlet, which originally served as after-dinner conversation, features one of anthropology's revered elders at his best.
Author : Sara Mills
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415245685
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.