F-O

F-O
Author: John Rylands Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 700
Release: 1899
Genre: Rare books
ISBN:

The Punitive Society

The Punitive Society
Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Picador
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2018-08-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1250183936

These thirteen lectures on the 'punitive society,' delivered at the Collège de France in the first three months of 1973, examine the way in which the relations between justice and truth that govern modern penal law were forged, and question what links them to the emergence of a new punitive regime that still dominates contemporary society. Praise for Foucault's Lectures at the Collège de France Series “Ideas spark off nearly every page...The words may have been spoken in [the 1970s], but they seem as alive and relevant as if they had been written yesterday.”—Bookforum “Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are...[He] is carrying out, in the noblest way, the promiscuous aim of true culture.”—The Nation “[Foucault] has an alert and sensitive mind that can ignore the familiar surfaces of established intellectual coded and ask new questions...[He] gives dramatic quality to the movement of culture.”—The New York Review of Books

Conflict and Enlightenment

Conflict and Enlightenment
Author: Thomas Munck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2019-11-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521878071

This novel study of political culture in Enlightenment Europe analyses print, public opinion and the transnational dissemination of texts.

History After Hobsbawm

History After Hobsbawm
Author: John Arnold
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2018
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0198768788

What does it mean--and what might it yet come to mean--to write "history" in the twenty-first century? History After Hobsbawm brings together leading historians from across the globe to ask what being an historian should mean in their particular fields of study. Taking their cue from one of the previous century's greatest historians, Eric Hobsbawm, and his interests across many periods and places, the essays approach their subjects with an underlying sense of what role an historian might seek to play, and attempt to help twenty-first-century society understand "how we got here" They present new work in their sub-fields but also point to how their specialisms are developing, how they might further grow in the future, and how different areas of focus might speak to the larger challenges of history--both for the discipline itself and for its relationship to other fields of academic inquiry. Like Hobsbawn, the authors in this collection know that history matters. They speak to both the past and the present and, in so doing, introduce some of the most exciting new lines of research in a broad array of subjects from the medieval period to the present.