The Cambridge Introduction To Michel Foucault

Author : Lisa Downing
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521682992
Total Pages : 152 pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault written by Lisa Downing and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault is essential reading for students in departments of literature, history, sociology and cultural studies. His work on the institutions of mental health and medicine, the history of systems of knowledge, literature and literary theory, criminality and the prison system, and sexuality, has had a profound and enduring impact across the humanities and social sciences. This introductory book, written for students, offers in-depth critical and contextual perspectives on all of Foucault's major published works. It provides ways in to understanding Foucault's key concepts of subjectivity, discourse, and power and explains the problems of translation encountered in reading Foucault in English. The book also explores the critical reception of Foucault's works and acquaints the reader with the afterlives of some of his theories, particularly his influence on feminist and queer studies. This book offers the ideal introduction to a famously complex, controversial and important thinker.

Author : Gary Gutting
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521840828
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Foucault written by Gary Gutting and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-18 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to Foucault, from his early work on madness to his history of sexuality.

Author : Leonard Lawlor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139867067
Total Pages : 1182 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon written by Leonard Lawlor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon is a reference tool that provides clear and incisive definitions and descriptions of all of Foucault's major terms and influences, including history, knowledge, language, philosophy and power. It also includes entries on philosophers about whom Foucault wrote and who influenced Foucault's thinking, such as Deleuze, Heidegger, Nietzsche and Canguilhem. The entries are written by scholars of Foucault from a variety of disciplines such as philosophy, gender studies, political science and history. Together, they shed light on concepts key to Foucault and to ongoing discussions of his work today.

Author : Gary Gutting
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521408875
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Foucault written by Gary Gutting and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-02-25 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New readers and non-specialists will find this the most convenient, accessible guide to Foucault currently available.

Author : Lisa Downing
Publisher : After
ISBN 13 : 1107140498
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Foucault written by Lisa Downing and published by After. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributes to Foucauldian scholarship by contextualizing Foucault's key concepts and identifying current and emerging applications of his work.

Author : Philip Barker
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312105877
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michel Foucault written by Philip Barker and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1993 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dianna Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317492056
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michel Foucault written by Dianna Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Foucault was one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. His work on freedom, subjectivity, and power is now central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, education, psychology, politics, anthropology, sociology, and criminology. "Michel Foucault: Key Concepts" explores Foucault's central ideas, such as disciplinary power, biopower, bodies, spirituality, and practices of the self. Each essay focuses on a specific concept, analyzing its meaning and uses across Foucault's work, highlighting its connection to other concepts, and emphasizing its potential applications. Together, the chapters provide the main co-ordinates to map Foucault's work. But more than a guide to the work, "Michel Foucault: Key Concepts" introduces readers to Foucault's thinking, equipping them with a set of tools that can facilitate and enhance further study.

Author : Gary Gutting
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521366984
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason written by Gary Gutting and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-09-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the critical interpretation of the work of Michael Foucault.

Author : Yvonne Sherratt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139448552
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continental Philosophy of Social Science written by Yvonne Sherratt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-17 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continental Philosophy of Social Science demonstrates the unique and autonomous nature of the continental approach to social science and contrasts it with the Anglo-American tradition. Yvonne Sherratt argues for the importance of an historical understanding of the Continental tradition in order to appreciate its individual, humanist character. Examining the key traditions of hermeneutic, genealogy, and critical theory, and the texts of major thinkers such as Gadamer, Ricoeur, Derrida, Nietzsche, Foucault, the Early Frankfurt School and Habermas, she also contextualizes contemporary developments within strands of thought stemming back to Ancient Greece and Rome. Sherratt shows how these modes of thinking developed through medieval Christian thought into the Enlightenment and Romantic eras, before becoming mainstays of twentieth-century disciplines. Continental Philosophy of Social Science will serve as the essential textbook for courses in philosophy or social sciences.

Author : J.D. Marshall
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401586624
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michel Foucault: Personal Autonomy and Education written by J.D. Marshall and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to serve two purposes. First it provides an introduction to the ideas and works of Michel Foucault. It should be particularly appropriate for education students for whom, in general, Foucault is a shadowy presence. Second, it provides a Foucault based critique of a central plank of Western liberal education, the notion of the autonomous individual or personal autonomy. There are several introductions to Foucault but they tend to be written from a particular theoretical position, or with a particular interest in Foucault's ideas and works. For example Smart (1986) and Poster (1984) exemplify the former, and Dreyfus and Rabinow (1983) the latter. There is no substantial work in education on Foucault, apart from Ball (1990), which is an edited collection of papers by educationalists. The writer started reading Foucault from a position in education which was in the liberal framework, somewhere between Dewey, Freire and Habermas, but with an interest in punishment, authority and power. The book is the outcome of several years of trying to introduce students in education to his ideas and works in an educationally relevant manner. But an introduction, on its own, cannot show this relevance to education. Unless his ideas are put to work, unless they are used as opposed to mentioned in some sphere or area of education, then they may be of little relevance.