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Michel Foucault Philosopher Cl

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Language, Counter-memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Basil Blackwell

Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History of Sexuality. But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind these difficult individual studies, thus losing sight of the broad social vision and political aims that unified them.Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent -- and terrifying -- portrait of society that he was patiently compiling.For, as Foucault shows, what he was always describing was the nature of power in society; not the conventional treatment of power that concentrates on powerful individuals and repressive institutions, but the much more pervasive and insidious mechanisms by which power "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives"Foucault's investigations of prisons, schools, barracks, hospitals, factories, cities, lodgings, families, and other organized forms of social life are each a segment of one of the most astonishing intellectual enterprises of all time -- and, as this book proves, one which possesses profound implications for understanding the social control of our bodies and our minds.

Power/Knowledge : Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Longman

Challenging all thought that came before him, Michel Foucault remains one of the towering intellectual figures of the last half-century. His works on sexuality, madness, the prison, and medicine are enduring classics. From 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the famous College de France. These seminal events, attended by thousands, created the benchmarks for contemporary social enquiry. The lectures comprising Abnormal begin by examining the role of psychiatry in modern criminal justice, and its method of categorising individuals who 'resemble their crime before they commit it.' Building on the themes of societal self-defence developed in earlier works, Foucault shows how defining 'normality' became a prerogative of power in the nineteenth century, shaping the institutions - from the prisons to the family - meant to deal with 'monstrosity', whether sexual, physical, or spiritual. The College de France lectures add immeasurably to our appreciation and understanding of Foucault's thought.

Abnormal Lectures At College De France

GARDNERS VI BOOKS AMS006

Dictionnaire de géologie

Dunod]

Foucault analiza, en este segundo volumen, desde El sobrino de Rameau al perfil trágico de Antonin Artaud, pasando por Nietzsche y Nerval. Toda una historia de la locura se dibuja y socava los presupuestos mismos del poder y la sabiduría occidentales.

Historia de la locura en la época clásica, II (Breviarios, 191) (Spanish Edition)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Michel

Psychology & Counseling

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA*

Clásico entre los clásicos modernos, este ensayo construye una historia de la razón a partir de la historia de la locura, buscando en ambas las constantes que definen su entorno cultural. Este hecho, que modifica profundamente el perfil interior de la experiencia occidental, es el objeto de la mirada de Michel Foucault.

Historia de la locura en la época clásica, I (Breviarios Del Fondo De Cultura Economica, 191) (Spanish Edition)

World Literature

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