The Foucault Reader
Michel Foucault
Vitnage, 2010
194 F762f
"Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But of his many books, not one offers a satisfactory introduction to the entire complex body of his work. The Foucault Reader was commissioned precisely to serve that purpose.
The Reader contains selections from each area of Foucault's work as well as a wealth of previously unpublished writings, including important material written especially for this volume, the preface to the long-awaited second volume of The History of Sexuality, and interviews with Foucault himself, in the course of which he discussed his philosophy at first hand and with unprecedented candor.
This philosophy comprises an astonishing intellectual enterprise: a minute and ongoing investigation of the nature of power in society. Foucault's analyses of this power as it manifests itself in society, schools, hospitals, factories, homes, families, and other forms of organized society are brought together in The Foucault Reader to create an overview of this theme and of the broad social and political vision that underlies it." -publisher
contents:
pt. I. Truth and method. What is enlightenment? -- Truth and power -- Nietzsche, genealogy, history -- What is an author? -- pt. II. Practices and knowledge. Madness and civilization. The great confinement -- The birth of the asylum -- Disciplines and sciences of the individual. The body of the condemned -- Docile bodies -- The means of correct training -- Panopticism -- Complete and austere institutions -- Illegalities and delinquency -- The carceral -- Space, knowledge, and power -- Bio-power. The right of death and power over life -- The politics of health in the eighteenth century -- Sex and truth. We "other Victorians -- The repressive hypothesis -- Practices and sciences of the self. Preface to The history of sexuality, Volume II -- On the genealogy of ethics : an overview of work in progress -- Politics and ethics : an interview -- Polemics, politics, and problemizations : an interview with Michel Foucault