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Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
Category: Non-Fiction | 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
Category: Non-Fiction | 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 by Michel Foucault
Category: Non-Fiction
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 punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Social Sciences Ser.
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
Category: Non-Fiction | 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innovative' The New York Times Book Review The grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed?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
Category: Non-Fiction | 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
Category: Non-Fiction | 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
Category: Non-Fiction | 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
Category: Non-Fiction | 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.
Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 by Michel Foucault
Category: Non-Fiction
Focault interprets his writings about sexuality, politics and punishment stressing the contribution of each to the portrait of society he is compiling.
Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-76 by Michel Foucault
Category: Non-Fiction | 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 Foucault Reader by Foucault, Michel
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Foucault Reader is the ideal introduction to one the most stimulating and influential writers of the past century. It includes detailed excerpts from all his richly textured historical studies - including Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality - as well as many of his best interviews. ...Show more