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Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France 1974-1975

Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France 1974-1975

Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault remains one of the towering intellectual figures of the last half century. Michel Foucault's works on sexuality, madness, the prison and medicine are classics and his example continues to challenge and inspire.
The Lives of Michel Foucault: A Biography

The Lives of Michel Foucault: A Biography

David Macey

In The Lives of Michel Foucault -- written with the full cooperation of Daniel Defert, Foucault's former lover -- David Macey gives the richest account to date of Foucault's life and work, informed as it is by the complex issues arising ...
Michel Foucault: Genealogy as Critique

Michel Foucault: Genealogy as Critique

Rudi Visker

The reception of Michel Foucault's work has often been divided between two unsatisfactory alternatives.
The Birth of the Clinic

The Birth of the Clinic

Michel Foucault

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.
Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault

Sara Mills

At his inauguration to the chair in The History of Systems of Thought' at the Collegè de France in Paris in 1970 Michel Foucault commented on the difficulties , the responsibilities and the risks, associated with entering the world of discourse .
The Passion of Michel Foucault

The Passion of Michel Foucault

James 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 influential philosophers.
Michel Foucault: Critical Assessments

Michel Foucault: Critical Assessments

Barry Smart

It is impossible to imagine contemporary critical theory without the work of Michel Foucault.
Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault

David Macey

With Michel Foucault, Reaktion Books introduces an exciting new series that brings the work of major intellectual figures to general readers, illuminating their groundbreaking ideas through concise biographies and cogent readings.
Michel Foucault (2):

Michel Foucault (2):

Barry Smart

This second set of Critical Assessmentson Michel Foucault deals with his work in relation to the themes of rationality, power and subjectivity. Like the first set, these four volumes will serve as a benchmark guide to his thought.
Michel Foucault:

Michel Foucault:

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... from the point of view taken in this commentary, hear the sound-documentary " Michel Foucault," produced by Robert Malesky for the National Public Radio series "A Question of Place: Sound-Portraits of Twentieth- Century Humanists.
Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory

Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory

Lynne Huffer

Contemporary critiques of sexuality have their origins in the work of Michel Foucault.
Michel Foucault: Materialism and Education

Michel Foucault: Materialism and Education

Mark Olssen

Examines Foucault's relationship to Marxism, as well as his relations to Kant, Gramsci, Habermas, and the Greeks.
Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information ...

Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information ...

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For discussion of Foucault's refusal of indignation in the GIP context, see the provocative analysis by Nancy Luxon in chapter 11 of this volume. Ibid. Foucault, “Enquête sur les prisons: brisons les barreaux du silence” (1971), FDE1, no.
Foucault: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Foucault: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Jason L. Powell

This edited book pays homage to the conceptual gifts left by Michel Foucault and it assesses different aspects of social sciences such as sociology, economics, arts, volunteering, crime, sexuality.
Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography

Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography

David M. Halperin

The acclaimed author of One Hundred Years of Homosexuality offers an uncompromising and impassioned defense of the late French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault as a galvanizing thinker whose career as a theorist and activist will ...
The Impact of Michel Foucault on the Social Sciences and ...

The Impact of Michel Foucault on the Social Sciences and ...

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Moya Lloyd As Foucault showed us in his last books and in his life, there is a kind of ethical and intellectual integrity which, while vigorously opposing justifications of one's actions in terms of religion, law, science or philosophical grounding, ...
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

Michel Foucault

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.
Foucault and the Politics of Rights

Foucault and the Politics of Rights

Ben Golder

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.
History and Reading: Tocqueville, Foucault, French Studies

History and Reading: Tocqueville, Foucault, French Studies

Dominick LaCapra

LaCapra addresses the ongoing concern with the application of theory to contemporary historical research and analysis through a comparison of two authors seldom read together: Alexis de Tocqueville and Michel Foucault.
Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman

Design, Mediation, and the Posthuman

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Edited by Amy C. Kimme Hea, 35–49. Cresskill: Hampton. Foucault, Michel. 2009 . “The Language of Space.” In Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography, translated by Gerald Moore, edited by Jeremy W.Crampton and Stuart ...
Paraesthetics: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida

Paraesthetics: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida

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Paraesthetics' is a neologism invented by David Carroll to unlock the extra-aesthetic relationship between art and literature in the work of Michel Foucault, Jean-Francois Lyotard and Jacques Derrida.
Same-Sex Desire in Indian Culture: Representations in ...

Same-Sex Desire in Indian Culture: Representations in ...

Oliver Ross

Andrew Grossman, Queer Asian Cinema: Shadows in the Shade, ed. by Andrew Grossman (New York: Harrington Park Press, 2001), p. 299. 6. Rao, 2009, p. xviii. 7. Michel Foucault, “History and Homosexuality,” in Foucault Live (Interviews, ...
Foucault

Foucault

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This is a crucial examination of the philosophical foundations and principal themes of Foucault's work, providing a rigorous engagement with Foucault's views on knowledge, punishment, power, and the nature of subjectivity.
Religion and Culture

Religion and Culture

Michel Foucault

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth

Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth

Alan Sheridan

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth

Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth

Alan Sheridan

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Foucault''s Philosophy of Art: A Genealogy of Modernity

Foucault''s Philosophy of Art: A Genealogy of Modernity

Joseph J. Tanke

We know from Rachida Triki that Masaccio was one of the quattrocento artists discussed in Foucault''s 1968 course where he treated the depiction of Adam and Eve being expelled from the garden (c. 1425–1428), a fresco from the Brancacci Chapel.” Jacqueline Verdeaux, the psychologist and family friend with whom Foucault traveled during the early 1950s, also attests to the importance of Masaccio for Foucault: ''He is the one who made me understand Masaccio''s frescos in Florence ...
Foucault/Derrida Fifty Years Later: The Futures of ...

Foucault/Derrida Fifty Years Later: The Futures of ...

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“Insanus,” Foucault writes, “is a term of characterization; amens and demens are disqualifying terms” (MB 559/ 590). 7. Lynne Huffer, Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010).

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