Authors:Michel Foucault, Paul Rabinow,
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: reader, foucault
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1984-11-12
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0394713400
ISBN-13: 9780394713403

Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But of his many books, not one offers a satisfactory introduction to the entire complex body of his work. The Foucault Reader was commissioned precisely to serve that purpose.The Reader contains selections from each area of Foucault’s work as well as a wealth of previously unpublished writings, including important material written especially for this volume, the preface t

Authors:Michel Foucault, Paul Rabinow,
Publisher: New Press
Keywords: foucault, vol, works, essential, subjectivity, truth, ethics
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2006-04-28
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1565844343
ISBN-13: 9781565844346

Michel Foucault is generally considered one of the most brilliant and influential philosophers of the twentieth century, yet much of his writing has remained unpublished and/or unavailable in English. It is only recently that the French publisher Gallimard issued Dis et crits, the first complete collection of everything Foucault published outside of his monographs. Ethics, the first of three volumes in the collection, provides a lucid and accessible overview of Foucault’s work. Included in the first section of this volume are his groundbreaking analyses of penal institutions, psychiatry,

Authors:Michel Foucault, Paul Rabinow, Robert Hurley, James D
Publisher: The New Press
Keywords: foucault, vol, works, essential, method, epistemology, aesthetics
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 1999-09-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1565845587
ISBN-13: 9781565845589

Now in paperback, the second volume in the definitive collection of Foucault’s shorter writings, a Voice Literary Supplement bestseller. Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the twentieth century as Michel Foucault. Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology, the second volume of Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, surveys Foucault’s diverse but sustained address of the historical forms and interplay of passion, experience, and truth. Now in paperback, this volume includes commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Roussel, and Boulez. It al

Authors:Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault,  John Rajchma,
Publisher: New Pre
Keywords: nature, human, debate, foucault, chomsky
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-09-13
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1595581340
ISBN-13: 9781595581341

Two of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers debate a perennial question.In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War and at a time of great political and social instability, two of the world’s leading intellectuals, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, were invited by Dutch philosopher Fons Edlers to debate an age-old question: is there such a thing as "innate" human nature independent of our experiences and external influences?The resulting dialogue is one of the most original, provocative, and spontaneous exchanges to have occurred between contemporary philosophers, and a

Authors:Michel Foucault, Nikolas Rose, Paul Rabinow, Nikolas
Publisher: New Press, The
Keywords: foucault, essential
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2003-08-22
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1565848284
ISBN-13: 9781565848283

The latest book in The New Press’s Essential series collects key texts from the influential French philosopher. Few philosophers have had as significant an impact on contemporary thought as Michel Foucault. His complete uncollected writings, under the title Dits et écrits, were published in French in 1994 and in a three-volume series from The New Press that brought the most important of these works—courses, articles, and interviews, many of them translated into English for the first time—to American readers. Now, Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose have collected the best pieces from t

Author: Thomas R. Flynn
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: reason, history, foucault, sartre, amp, theory, volume, historical, one, existentialist
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 1997-09-02
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0226254682
ISBN-13: 9780226254685

Sartre and Foucault were two of the most prominent and at times mutually antagonistic philosophical figures of the twentieth century. And nowhere are the antithetical natures of their existentialist and poststructuralist philosophies more apparent than in their disparate approaches to historical understanding. A history, thought Foucault, should be a kind of map, a comparative charting of structural transformations and displacements. But for Sartre, authentic historical understanding demanded a much more personal and committed narrative, a kind of interpretive diary of moral choices and risks

Author: J. G. Merquior
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: foucault
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 1987-04-23
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0520060628
ISBN-13: 9780520060623

In this concise, witty critical study, Merquior examines Foucault’s work on madness, sexuality, and power and offers a provocative assessment of Foucault as a "neo-anarchist." Merquior brings an astonishing breadth of scholarship to bear on his subject as he explores Foucault using insights from a range of fields including philosophy, sociology, and history.