Michel Foucault
The History Of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge Volume 1
$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Michel Foucault's The Will to Knowledge is the first part of his influential trilogy of books on the history of sexuality. He argues that the recent explosion of discussion about sex in the West means that, far from bein... Buy or find out more →
The Will To Knowledge: History Of Sexuality Volume 1
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
Why has there been such an explosion of discussion about sex in the West since the 17th century? This discourse gathered momentum in the Victorian age which, Foucault argues, was not repressive in the way we commonly ima... Buy or find out more →
Use Of Pleasure: History Of Sexuality Volume 2
$29.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
This book offers an account of the emergence of Christianity from the Ancient World. Here Foucault describes the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex as well as on exercise ... Buy or find out more →
Aesthetics Essential Works 1954- 1984: Volume 2
$28.00 – Paperback book / Penguin
Although most famous for his epoch-making studies of sexuality, psychiatry and criminology, Michel Foucault (1926-84) was a hugely prolific thinker whose writings ranged right across the arts and sciences from ancient Gr... Buy or find out more →
Ethics Essential Works 1954-1984: Volume 1
$28.00 – Paperback book / Penguin
This is the first of three volumes collecting the most significant writings and interviews of Michel Foucault outside his published monographs. Ethics contains Foucault's summaries of the highly influential courses he ta... Buy or find out more →
Power/ Knowledge: Selected Interviews & Other Writings 1972 - 1977
$23.95 – Paperback book / Pantheon
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;... Buy or find out more →
Power: Essential Works Volume 3 1954 - 1984
$28.00 – Paperback book / Penguin
The final volume in Michel Foucault's seminal Essential Works series, this collection of articles, interviews and lectures, many in English for the first time, brings together his most outspoken views on politics and pow... Buy or find out more →
Discipline And Punish
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishmen... Buy or find out more →
Foucault Reader
$28.00 – Paperback book / Penguin
An introduction to Foucault and his work. Buy or find out more →
This Is Not A Pipe
$27.95 – Paperback book / Univ California Pr
What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? René Magritte's famous canvas provides the starting point for a delightful homage by French philosopher and historian Michel Fo... Buy or find out more →
I Pierre Riviere Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century
$42.95 – Paperback book / Univ California Pr
To free his father and himself from his mother's tyranny, Pierre Riviere decided to kill her. On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hook and cut to death his mother, his eighteen-year-old... Buy or find out more →
The Birth Of Biopolitics
$59.95 – Paperback book / Palgrave
Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France in 1979, The Birth of Biopolitics, pursue and develop further the themes of his lectures from the previous year, Security, Territory, Population. Having shown how Eight... Buy or find out more →
Introduction To Kant's Anthropology From A Pragmatic Point of View
$19.95 – Paperback book / Mit Press
This introduction and commentary to Kant's least discussed work, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, is the dissertation that Michel Foucault presented in 1961 as his doctoral thesis. It has remained unpublished... Buy or find out more →
History Of Madness In The Classical Age
$100.00 – Hardcover book / Routledge
When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la Folie à l'âge Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time an abridged Engl... Buy or find out more →
Society Must Be Defended
$26.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
One of the most provocative and polemical thinkers of modern times, Michael Foucault exposed the system of power inherent in all aspects of society with his revolutionary studies of sexuality, madness and punishment. In ... Buy or find out more →
Madness And Civilization
$29.95 – Paperback book / Routledge
Michel Foucault's history of madness during the classical age - the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries - is far too esoteric for the general reader. Foucault, cutting himself off entirely from the structure of modern psychia... Buy or find out more →
Order Of Things
$24.95 – Paperback book / Routledge
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, ... Buy or find out more →
Archaeology Of Knowledge
$24.95 – Paperback book / Routledge
In France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which also included Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuz... Buy or find out more →
Birth Of The Clinic
$29.95 – Paperback book / Routledge
In this remarkable book Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, calls us to look critically at specific historical events in order to uncover new layers of significance. In doing so, he cha... Buy or find out more →
Herculin Barbain
$33.95 – Paperback book / Pantheon
With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designated female at birth. A... Buy or find out more →
Security Territory Population
$59.95$15.95 – Hardcover book / Palgrave
Marking a major development in Foucault's thinking, this book derives from the lecture course which he gave at the College de France between January and April, 1978. Taking as his starting point the notion of "bio-power,... Buy or find out more →
Abnormal
$26.95 – Paperback book / Picador
From 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the world-famous College de France. Attended by thousands, these were seminal events in the world of French letters. Picador is proud to be publishing t... Buy or find out more →
Hermeneutics Of The Subject: Lectures At The College De France
$27.95 – Paperback book / Picador Us
The Hermeneutics of the Subject is the third volume in the collection of Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France, where faculty give public lectures on any topic of their choosing. Attended by thousands, Fouc... Buy or find out more →