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, Psychology and the Analytics of Power

Author: D. Hook
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230592325
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
This book introduces and applies Foucault's key concepts and procedures, specifically for a psychology readership. Drawing on recently published Collège de France lectures, it is useful to those concerned with Foucault's engagement with the 'psy-disciplines' and those interested in the practical application of Foucault's critical research methods.

Critical And Effective Histories

Author: Mitchell Dean
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134921314
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Methodology

Author: Kerry E Howell
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1446271625
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
This book provides students with a concise introduction to the philosophy of methodology. The book stands apart from existing methodology texts by clarifying in a student-friendly and engaging way distinctions between philosophical positions, paradigms of inquiry, methodology and methods. Building an understanding of the relationships and distinctions between philosophical positions and paradigms is an essential part of the research process and integral to deploying the methodology and methods best suited for a research project, thesis or dissertation. Aided throughout by definition boxes, examples and exercises for students, the book covers topics such as: - Positivism and Post-positivism - Phenomenology - Critical Theory - Constructivism and Participatory Paradigms - Post-Modernism and Post-Structuralism - Ethnography - Grounded Theory - Hermeneutics - Foucault and Discourse This text is aimed at final-year undergraduates and post-graduate research students. For more experienced researchers developing mixed methodological approaches, it can provide a greater understanding of underlying issues relating to unfamiliar techniques.

The Birth of the Clinic

Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134955391
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
Foucault's classic study of the history of medicine.

Critical And Effective Histories

Author: Mitchell Dean
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134921306
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
First Published in 2004. This work places Foucault's methodologies against social theory and philosophy in order to provide a guide to social sciences, particularly historical sociology. Written to clarify Foucault's contribution for professional and non-professional readers, the text demonstrates the originality and usefulness of Foucault's work and embodies a conviction that Foucault's approaches could transform sociology into an effective, multi-focused, relevant discipline. Finally, the book illustrates that his methods provide the necessary condition for any state-of-the-art social research today, addressing his methodological position and establishing its relationship to Nietzsche, Kant, Weber, Elias, Habermas, Giddens, and the Annales and Frankfurt Schools.

Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method

Author: Marianne W Jørgensen
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761971122
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
A systematic introduction to discourse analysis as a body of theories and methods for social research. Introduces three approaches and explains the distinctive philosophical premises and theoretical perspectives of each approach.

Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology

Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780241435113
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Aesthetics offers a focused study on the philosophy, literature and art which informed Foucault's engagement with ethics and power, including brilliant commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud and Wagner.

Foucault and Educational Ethics

Author: Bruce Moghtader
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137574968
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
In his works on ethics, Foucault turned towards an examination of one's relationship with oneself and others. This differs from the modern approaches that explore the relationship between and the responsibilities of actors to each other by adopting criteria. Ethical criteria engender assumptions about the actors by focusing on their responsibilities. Instead of relying on criteria, Foucault's writing and lectures contributed to an awareness of the activities we take upon ourselves as ethical subjects. His reconstruction of the Greco-Roman ethics seeks to examine the possibilities of the reconstitution and transformation of subjectivity. Through this, he offers an avenue of understanding the formation of ethical subjects in their educational interrelationships.

The Order of Things

Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134499132
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description
When one defines "order" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology in The Order of Things, possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the twentieth century. Eclipsed by his later work on power and discourse, nonetheless it was The Order of Things that established Foucault's reputation as an intellectual giant. Pirouetting around the outer edge of language, Foucault unsettles the surface of literary writing. In describing the limitations of our usual taxonomies, he opens the door onto a whole new system of thought, one ripe with what he calls "exotic charm". Intellectual pyrotechnics from the master of critical thinking, this book is crucial reading for those who wish to gain insight into that odd beast called Postmodernism, and a must for any fan of Foucault.