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61. Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Western Culture: Toward a New Science of History by Pamela Major-Poetzl | |
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(2009-10-14)
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62. Michel Foucault (Reaktion Books - Critical Lives) by David Macey | |
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(2005-03-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description With Michel Foucault, Reaktion Books introduces an exciting new series that brings the work of major intellectual figures to general readers, illuminating their groundbreaking ideas through concise biographies and cogent readings. (20041226)There is no better thinker than Foucault with which to begin the "Critical Lives" series. Though reticent about his personal life for most of his career, Foucault, in the last years of his life, changed his stance on the relationship between the personal and the intellectual and began to speak of an "aesthetics of existence" in which "the life" and "the work" become one. David Macey, a renowned expert on Foucault, demonstrates that these contradictions make it possible to relate Foucault's work to his life in an original and exciting way. Exploring the complex intellectual and political world in which Foucault lived and worked, and how that world is reflected in his seminal works, Macey paints a portrait of Foucault in which the thinker emerges as a brilliant strategist, one who-while fiercely promoting himself as a maverick-aligned himself with particular intellectual camps at precisely the right moments. Michel Foucault traces the philosopher's career from his comfortable provincial background to the pinnacle of the French academic system, paying careful attention to the networks of friendships and the relations of power that sustained Foucault's prominence in the academy. In an interview in 1966, Foucault said, "One ought to read everything, study everything. In other words, one must have at one's disposal the general archive of a period at a given moment." It is precisely this archive that Macey restores here, accessibly relating Foucault's works to the particular context in which they were given form. |
63. How to Read Foucault (How to Read) by Johanna Oksala | |
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(2008-08-17)
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64. Foucault: A Critical Reader (Blackwell Critical Reader) | |
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(1991-01-15)
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65. Michel Foucault: Key Concepts (Key Concepts Series) by Dianna Taylor | |
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(2010-11-30)
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66. History of Sexuality Volume 1: An Introduction by Michel Foucault | |
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(1980-01-12)
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67. I, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century | |
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(1982-12-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description To free his father and himself from his mother's tyranny, Pierre Rivière decided to kill her. On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hook and cut to death his mother, his eighteen-year-old sister, and his seven-year-old brother. Then, in jail, he wrote a memoir to justify the whole gruesome tale. Michel Foucault, author of Madness and Civilization and Discipline and Punish, collected the relevant documents of the case, including medical and legal testimony, police records. and Rivière's memoir. The Rivière case, he points out, occurred at a time when many professions were contending for status and power. Medical authority was challenging law, branches of government were vying. Foucault's reconstruction of the case is a brilliant exploration of the roots of our contemporary views of madness, justice, and crime. Customer Reviews (4)
It is not Riviere who is at trial *again* in Foucault's book, but rather it is a trial described, which could be any trial.A crime after the fact is a story, a memory for those who were involved, but we all become involved in an event as if it were a story we have heard before.What other way to approach a murder that is to us words and the heaving bosom of a witness, the placid tension of the accused?We confront a forced performance with confused or feigned characterizations. Yet even said, this is not Foucault, nor what Foucault was reaching for.All Foucault does is show how people act in response to crime and reveal the obvious ploys that repeat themselves throughout history, because the story that composes our lives has not died. And if a man approached you with a mark on him, and claimed to have killed his brother, and the soil did cry out to you, would you raise your hand against him? This book is a good accompanyment to his work Discipline and Punish.
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68. Disciplining Foucault: Feminism, Power, and the Body (Thinking Gender) by Jana Sawicki | |
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(1991-09-06)
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69. L'ordre du Discours by Michel Foucault | |
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70. Herculine Barbin (Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth Century French Hermaphrodite) by Michel Foucault | |
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(1980-06-12)
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Editorial Review Product Description Here, in an erotic diary, is one lost voice from our sexual past. Provocative, articulate, eerily prescient as she imagines her corpse under the probing instruments of scientists, Herculine brings a disturbing perspective to our own notions of sexuality. Michel Foucault, who discovered these memoirs in the archives of the French Department of Public Hygiene, presents them with the graphic medical descriptions of Herculine's body before and after her death. In a striking contrast, a painfully confused young person and the doctors who examine her try to sort out the nature of masculine and feminine at the dawn of the age of modern sexuality. "Herculine Barbin can be savored like a libertine novel. The ingenousness of Herculine, the passionate yet equivocal tenderness which thrusts her into the arms, even into the beds, of her companions, gives these pages a charm strangely erotic...Michel Foucault has a genius for bringing to light texts and reviving destinies outside the ordinary."Le Monde, July 1978 Customer Reviews (3)
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71. Fearless Speech by Michel Foucault | |
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(2001-02-19)
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Parrhesia is a type of speech that is neither rhetoric nor dialectic, though it has historically occupied an important space among both - forming perhaps a trialectic.Parrhesia is a species of truth that mandates its own telling, in a quasi-spiritual fashion if need be: the parrhesiastes, or truth-teller, is one who puts him- or herself at considerable risk, including the risk of death, with his or her words.It can easily be seen that parrhesia is an essential antecedent to criticism and critical theory, but it is also ubiquitous in many forms of discourse.The Jeremiads of prophetic speech, the jokes of court jesters, Che's formative travelogues around South America, Taussig's defacing messages to the academy, and the best-selling literature of Rushdie that was in the 1990s so ill-received by the Muslim community - all of these are examples of this powerful discourse-form at work and play. I first ran across the term in Arpad Szakolczai's excellent volume on Weber and Foucault, "Parallel Life-Works."After reading FS, I was frankly amazed that the idea is not more widely discussed in university rhetoric classes.The concept is extremely fruitful, first of all, for anyone interested in rhetoric, dialectic, philosophy, and law.Moreover, for anyone studying Foucault's life or epistemic universe (orders of discourse, manifestation, dispositifs, and so on), parrhesia needs to be on the list of terms.For those interested in neo-Enlightenment thinkiers like Habermas and the communicative ethics thinkers like Benhabib and Miller, Rorty and the pragmatists, or the large and diverse group of scholars studying ideology (such as Teun van Dijk) within Critical Discouse Analysis, it's also a very worthwhile read. Most of all, though, the book shows everyone - and not just the intellectual - that parrhesia needs to be incorporated within our everyday modes of thinking and speaking.To what extent are "we" speaking, and to what extent is ideology speaking through us?What power does our speech reproduce, and what might it transform?Is our speech emancipatory?Does it contribute to the complexity of thought?Does it leave more questions open than closed?Do we break new ground, or just re-hash the useless play of words?This is a book that will fuel the mind and inspire questions like these like few others I've recently read.If you're tired of reading about the "end of history" and post-post-everything thought, try this slim volume.Highly recommended. ... Read more |
72. Between Genealogy and Epistemology: Psychology, Politics, and Knowledge in the Thought of Michel Foucault by Todd May | |
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(1993-05-01)
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73. Foucault's Nietzschean Genealogy: Truth, Power, and the Subject (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) (S U N Y Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) by Michael Mahon | |
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(1992-09-09)
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74. The Cambridge Companion to Foucault (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) | |
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(2005-07-25)
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75. The Final Foucault | |
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(1988-03-18)
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76. The Use of Pleasure (The History of Sexuality: Volume 2) by Michel Foucault | |
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(1986-10-12)
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77. Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, Neo-Liberalism, and Rationalities of Government | |
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(1996-06-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Despite the enormous influence of Michel Foucault in gender studies, social theory, and cultural studies, his work has been relatively neglected in the study of politics. Although he never published a book on the state, in the late 1970s Foucault examined the technologies of power used to regulate society and the ingenious recasting of power and agency that he saw as both consequence and condition of their operation. These twelve essays provide a critical introduction to Foucault's work on politics, exploring its relevance to past and current thinking about liberal and neo-liberal forms of government. Moving away from the great texts of liberal political philosophy, this book looks closely at the technical means with which the ideals of liberal political rationalities have been put into practice in such areas as schools, welfare, and the insurance industry. This fresh approach to one of the seminal thinkers of the twentieth century is essential reading for anyone interested in social and cultural theory, sociology, and politics. Customer Reviews (1)
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78. Foucault and Law: Towards a Sociology of Law as Governance (Law and Social Theory) by Alan Hunt, Gary Wickham | |
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(1994-11-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description When he died in 1984, Michel Foucault was regarded as one of the most profoundly influential philosophers of his day. Although the law itself never formed a central focus for Foucault, many of the principal themes in his writings are concerned with issues of governance and power that are of direct relevance to the study of law. And yet, until now, Foucault's work has attracted only fleeting attention from the legal academy. Foucault and Law corrects this oversight. Opening with a lucid, critical and unpretentious account of Foucault's work, Hunt and Wickham map out a terrain of methodological and theoretical principals, providing the groundwork for a new sociology of law as governance. |
79. Michel Foucault (Key Sociologists) by Sara Mills | |
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(2002-11-27)
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80. Foucault's Askesis: An Introduction to the Philosophical Life (Topics in Historical Philosophy) by Edward F. McGushin | |
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(2007-04-03)
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