Introducing Foucault

Author: Christopher Horrocks
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1840469129
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
This book places Michel 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. It 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.

Foucault

Author: Lois McNay
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745667856
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description
This work provides an introduction to the work of Michel Foucault. It offers an assessment of all of Foucault's work, including his final writings on governmentality and the self. McNay argues that the later work initiates an important shift in his intellectual concerns which alters any retrospective reading of his writings as a whole. Throughout, McNay is concerned to assess the normative and political implications of Foucault's social criticism. She goes beyond the level of many commentators to look at the values from which Foucault's work springs and reveals the implicit assumptions underlying his social critique. The author also provides an account and assessment of recent literature on Foucault, including that of Habermas and Taylor. She discusses Foucault's position in the modernity/postmodernity debate, his own ambivalence to Enlightenment thought and his place in recent developments in feminist and cultural theory.

Using Foucault's Methods

Author: Gavin Kendall
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761957171
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
`As a companion to Foucault's original texts, carefully showing what he's done and why - and how that could be applied elsewhere - it's outstanding' - www.theory.org.uk `Very much a `hands-on' tool kit of a book, scholarly but accessible.... a very useful textbook which approaches its subject in an original way' - Sociological Research Online `At last, a student-friendly guide that answers the question: "Yes, but how do you do Foucault?" Kendall and Wickham address the thorny question of how-to-Foucault in a clear, distinctive manner that stands out in the secondary literature on this important thinker' - Toby Miller, New York University Thi

Foucault and Politics

Author: Mark G. E. Kelly
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748676872
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
Critically explains Michel Foucault's thought: the political implications of each phase of his work, how his thought has been used in the political sphere and the importance of his work for politics today.

The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault

Author: Lisa Downing
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780511650109
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 153

Book Description
This 2008 book covers Foucault's major works in depth, and offers clear explanations of his key themes of power and discourse.

Introducing Foucault

Author: Chris Horrocks
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
ISBN: 1848317697
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 484

Book Description
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 his 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 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.

Michel Foucault

Author: Sara Mills
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415245680
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Book Description
Sara Mills offers an introduction to both the ideas of Michel Foucault and the debate surrounding him, fully equipping student readers for an encounter with this most influential of thinkers.

Understanding Foucault

Author: Tony Schirato
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000247368
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
'An outstandingly good introduction to Foucault's work: lucid, measured, well organised, and covering this complex and in many ways heterogeneous body of work with remarkable thoroughness and ease.' - Professor John Frow, University of Melbourne Michel Foucault is now regarded as one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. He is known for his sensibility of critique and his commitment to movements for social change. His analysis of the ways our notions of truth, meaning, knowledge and reason are shaped by historical forces continues to influence thinkers around the world. Understanding Foucault offers a comprehensive introduction to Foucault's work. The authors examine Foucault's thinking in the context of the philosophies he engaged with during his career, and the events he participated in, including the student protests of 1968. A unique feature of the book is its consideration of the recently published lectures and minor works, and the authors show how these illuminate and extend our understanding of Foucault's major books. Understanding Foucault provides an accessible entree to the world of this extraordinary and challenging philosopher.

Michel Foucault

Author: Philip Barker
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312105877
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description

Starting With Foucault

Author: C. G. Prado
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429976828
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
Michel Foucault had a great influence upon a wide range of disciplines, and his work has been widely interpreted and is frequently referred to, but it is often difficult for beginners to find their way into the complexities of his thought. This is especially true for readers whose background is Anglo-American or "analytic" philosophy. C. G. Prado argues in this updated introduction that the time is overdue for Anglo-American philosophers to avail themselves of what Foucault offers. In this clear and greatly-revised second edition, Prado focuses on Foucault's "middle" or genealogical work, particularly Discipline and Punish and Volume One of The History of Sexuality, in which Foucault most clearly comes to grips with the historicization of truth and knowledge and the formation of subjectivity. Understanding Foucault's thought on these difficult subjects requires working through much complexity and ambiguity, and Prado's direct and accessible introduction is the ideal place to start.