Introducing Foucault - Softcover

Horrocks, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840465913 ISBN 13: 9781840465914

Verlag: Icon Books, 2005

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? This book places his work in its turbulent philosophical and political context, critically exploring his mission to expose the links between knowledge and power in the human sciences, their discourses and institutions, and explains how Foucault overturned our assumptons about the experience and perception of madness, sexuality and criminality, and the often brutal social practices of confinement, confession and discipline. It also describes Foucault's engagement with psychiatry and clinical medicine, his political activism and the transgressive aspects of pleasure and desire that he promoted in his writing.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Icon Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1840465913
• ISBN 13: 9781840465914
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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