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Author | : Michel Foucault |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2012-04-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0307819299 |
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 | : Michael A. Peters |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780820478906 |
Author | : Ben Golder |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2015-10-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0804796513 |
This book focuses on Michel Foucault's late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics of rights in the contemporary era. As several commentators have observed, something quite remarkable happens in this late work. In his early career, Foucault had been a great critic of the liberal discourse of rights. Suddenly, from about 1976 onward, he makes increasing appeals to rights in his philosophical writings, political statements, interviews, and journalism. He not only defends their importance; he argues for rights new and as-yet-unrecognized. Does Foucault simply revise his former positions and endorse a liberal politics of rights? Ben Golder proposes an answer to this puzzle, which is that Foucault approaches rights in a spirit of creative and critical appropriation. He uses rights strategically for a range of political purposes that cannot be reduced to a simple endorsement of political liberalism. Golder develops this interpretation of Foucault's work while analyzing its shortcomings and relating it to the approaches taken by a series of current thinkers also engaged in considering the place of rights in contemporary politics, including Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Jacques Rancière.
Author | : Stuart Elden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2021-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781509525959 |
"The first intellectual history of Foucault's early career"--
Author | : Michel Foucault |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1980-11-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 039473954X |
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 | : Michel Foucault |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2008-07-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
"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 | : Sara Mills |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0415245680 |
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.
Author | : Michel Foucault |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2019-07-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 022650963X |
“An invaluable book” of late-career lectures that reveal Foucault’s perspective on truth, truth-telling, and the nature of discourse (Choice). This volume collects a series of lectures given by the renowned French thinker Michel Foucault. The first part presents a talk, Parresia, delivered at the University of Grenoble in 1982. The second presents a series of lectures entitled “Discourse and Truth,” given at the University of California, Berkeley in 1983, which appears here for the first time in its full and correct form. Together, these lectures provide an unprecedented account of Foucault’s reading of the Greek concept of parresia, often translated as “truth-telling” or “frank speech.” The lectures trace the transformation of this concept across Greek, Roman, and early Christian thought, from its origins in pre-Socratic Greece to its role as a central element of the relationship between teacher and student. In mapping the concept’s history, Foucault’s concern is not to advocate for free speech; rather, his aim is to explore the moral and political position one must occupy in order to take the risk to speak truthfully. These lectures—carefully edited and including notes and introductory material to fully illuminate Foucault’s insights—are a major addition to Foucault’s English language corpus.
Author | : Arnold Ira Davidson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
This volume also includes several important works by Foucault previously unpublished in English.
Author | : Michel Foucault |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781565848016 |
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.