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Michel Foucault
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…
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The final, previously unpublished volume of one of the twentieth century’s seminal works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…
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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…
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…
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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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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Originally published in the U.S. by Pantheon Books, in 1965 –T.p. verso.
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.
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 .
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…
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…
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Michel Foucalt
Traces the evolution of man’s study of himself from seventeenth-century human sciences.
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…
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Michel Foucault,A. M. Sheridan
Foucault’s classic study of the history of medicine.
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…
Hubert Dreyfus,Paul Rabinow
First Published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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.
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
Alan Sheridan (London, UK)
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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…
David Macey
The classic biography of the radical French philosopher
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…
Power , the third and final volume of the Foucault series, draws together Foucault’s contributions to what he saw as the still-underdeveloped practice of political analysis. Includes previously unpublished lectures…
Madness and Civilization is Foucault’s first book. His other books expand on themes established here: power and imprisonment. This title could change the way in which you think about society…
English summary: In November 1980, Michel Foucault gives in English, at Dartmouth College, two lectures entitled Truth and Subjectivity and Christianity and Confession . In these lectures, through the study…
A la fin du premier semestre 1982, Michel Foucault prononce a l'Universite Victoria de Toronto un cycle de conferences intitule Dire vrai sur soi-meme. Le theme de ces conferences, s'inscrivant…
A l'automne 1983, Michel Foucault prononce, a l'Universite de Californie a Berkeley, un cycle de six conferences intitule Discours et verite, dont on trouvera ici, pour la premiere fois, l'edition…
English summary: The present volume offers Michel Foucault’s conference before the French Philosophical Society in which he situates his work as part of an ethical and political attitude that is…
Venez decouvrir Surveiller et punir de Michel Foucault grace a une analyse philosophique de reference ! Ecrite par un specialiste universitaire, cette fiche de lecture est recommandee par de nombreux…
Ranging from reflections on the Enlightenment and revolution to a consideration of the Frankfurt School, this collection offers insight into the topics preoccupying Foucault as he worked on what would…
