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Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Aesthetics offers a focused study on the philosophy, literature and art which have informed Foucault's particular engagement with ethics and power, including brilliant commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, Roussel and Boulez.
Archaeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Routledge Classics
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 Deleuze. One of the great intellectual heroes of the twentieth century, Foucault was a man ...Show more
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Penguin Social Sciences Ser. | Reading Level: good
Foucault shows the development of the Western system of prisons, police organizations, administrative and legal hierarchies for social control - and the growth of disciplinary society as a whole.
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book Review The grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed? In his revolutionary work on control and power relations in our pub ...Show more
Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ethics is taken from the highly influential series of courses Foucault taught at the College de France from 1970 to 1982. This volume also includes a selection of engaging and unusually candid interviews, as well as excerpts from Foucault's key writing on ethics.
History of Sexuality Vol. 3 Care of Self by Michel Foucault
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: History of Sexuality
The Care of the Self is the third and possibly final volume of Michel Foucault's widely acclaimed examination of " the experience of sexuality in Western society." Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the c ...Show more
Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
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. Madness and Civilization, Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will change the way in which you think about society. Evo ...Show more
Power by Foucault, Michel
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This book 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 in human society.
Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-76 by Michel Foucault
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Society Must Be Defended is taken from a series of lectures given by Foucault at the College de France in 1975-76. Using war to analyse power relations, he contended that politics is ultimately a continuation of battlefield violence, and that ingrained ideas of sovereignty and individual rights are atte ...Show more
The Archeology Of Knowledge & The Discourse On Language by Michel Foucault
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Reading Level: very good
The Birth of the Clinic by Michel Foucault
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Routledge Classics
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 challenges our assumptions not only about history, but also about the nature of languag ...Show more
The Birth of the Clinic - An Archaeology of Medical Perception by Michel Foucault
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Reading Level: very good
In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that could be mapped. Disease became subject to new rules of classification. And doctors begin to describe phenome ...Show more