In this new addition to the College de France Lecture Series Michel Foucault explores the birth of psychiatry, examining Western society's division of 'mad' and 'sane' and how medicine and law influenced these attitudes. This seminal new work by a leading thinker of the modern age opens new vistas within historical and philosophical study.
In this new addition to the College de France Lecture Series Michel Foucault explores the birth of psychiatry, examining Western society's division of...
This book derives from Foucault's lectures at the College de France between January and April 1978, which can be seen as a radical turning point in his thought. Focusing on 'bio-power', he studies the foundations of this new technology of power over population and explores the technologies of security and the history of 'governmentality'.
This book derives from Foucault's lectures at the College de France between January and April 1978, which can be seen as a radical turning point in hi...
Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the twentieth century as Michel Foucault. His work has affected the teaching of any number of disciplines and remains, twenty years after his death, critically important. This newly available edition is drawn from the complete collection of all of Foucault's courses, articles, and interviews, and brings his most important work to a new generation of readers.
Ethics (edited by Paul Rabinow) contains the summaries of Foucault's renowned courses at the College de France, paired with key writings and interviews on friendship,...
Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the twentieth century as Michel Foucault. His work has affected the teaching of any number of d...
Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the twentieth century as Michel Foucault. His work has affected the teaching of any number of disciplines and remains, twenty years after his death, critically important. This newly available edition is drawn from the complete collection of all of Foucault s courses, articles, and interviews, and brings his most important work to a new generation of readers. "Aesthetics, Method and Epistemology" (edited by James D. Faubion) surveys Foucault s diverse but sustained address of the historical forms and interplay of passion, experience, and...
Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the twentieth century as Michel Foucault. His work has affected the teaching of any number of d...
Power, the third and final volume of The New Press s Essential Works of Foucault series, draws together Foucault s contributions to what he saw as the still-underdeveloped practice of political analysis. It covers the domains Foucault helped to make part of the core agenda of Western political culture medicine, psychiatry, the penal system, sexuality illuminating and expanding on the themes of The Birth of the Clinic, Discipline and Punish, and the first volume of The History of Sexuality.
Power includes previously unpublished lectures, later...
Power, the third and final volume of The New Press s Essential Works of Foucault series, draws together Foucault s contributions to what he ...
Few philosophers have had as significant an impact on contemporary thought as Michel Foucault. His complete uncollected writings, under the title Dits et ecrits, were published in French in 1994 and in a three volume series from The New Press that brought the most important of these works courses, articles, and interviews, many of them translated into English for the first time to American readers. Now, Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose have collected the best pieces from the three-volume set into a one-volume anthology. The Essential Foucault, which features a new and...
Few philosophers have had as significant an impact on contemporary thought as Michel Foucault. His complete uncollected writings, under the title D...
Two of the 20th century's most influential thinkers debate a perennial question--is there such a thing as "innate" human nature independent of experiences and external influences?
Two of the 20th century's most influential thinkers debate a perennial question--is there such a thing as "innate" human nature independent of experie...
In Psychiatric Power, the fourth volume in the collection of his groundbreaking lectures at the College de France, Michel Foucault addresses and expands upon the ideas in his seminal Madness and Civilization, sketching the genealogy of psychiatry and of its characteristic form of power/knowledge. Madness and Civilization undertook the archeology of the division according to which, in Western Society, the madman found himself separated from the sane. That book ends with the medicalization of madness at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Psychiatric Power...
In Psychiatric Power, the fourth volume in the collection of his groundbreaking lectures at the College de France, Michel Foucault addresses...
