Introducing Foucault - Softcover

Horrocks, Christopher; Jevtic, Zoran

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840460865 ISBN 13: 9781840460865

Verlag: Icon Books, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Michel Foucault's work was described at his death as the most important event of thought in our century. As a philosopher, historian, and political activist he certainly left behind an enduring and influential body of work, but is this acclaim justified?

Introducing Foucault places Foucault's work in its turbulent philosophical and political context, and critically explores his mission to expose the links between knowledge and power in the human sciences, their discourses and institutions. This book explains how Foucault overturned our assumptions about the experience and perception of madness, sexuality and criminality, and the often brutal social practices of confinement, confession and discipline. It highlights his engagement with psychiatry and clinical medicine and shows how his politics found physical expression on the streets of Paris in conflict with the police.

The book also contrasts his background, education, lifestyle and relationships with the transgressive aspects of pleasure and desire which he promoted in his writing.

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Reseña del editor

Foucault overturned many assumptions about madness, sexuality and criminality, and highlighted the brutal social practices of confinement and confession. This book describes his approaches to these problems through psychiatry and clinical medicine.

Reseña del editor

Placing Foucault's work in its turbulent philosophical context, this book critically explores his mission to expose the links between knowledge adn power in the human sciences, their discourses and institutions.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Icon Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1840460865
• ISBN 13: 9781840460865
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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