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Foucault: A Graphic Guide (Introducing (Totem Books)) (Paperback)
$9.94 - Save $1.10 (9%) - RRP $11.04 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for FoucaultMichel Foucault's work was described at his death as 'the most important event of thought in our century'. This book places his work in its turbulent philosophical and political context, and explores his mission to expose the links between knowledge and power in the human sciences, their discourses and institutions.
Full description- Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
- Published: 04 June 2009
- Format: Paperback 175 pages
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- Categories: Graphic Novels: True Stories & Non-fiction | Philosophy | Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -
- ISBN 13: 9781848310605 ISBN 10: 1848310609
- Sales rank: 60,804
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Full description for Foucault
Michel Foucault's work was described at his death as 'the most important event of thought in our century'. As a philosopher, historian and political activist, he certainly left behind an enduring and influential body of work, but is this acclaim justified? "Introducing Foucault" places his work in its turbulent philosophical and political context, and critically explores his mission to expose the links between knowledge and power in the human sciences, their discourses and institutions. This book explains how Foucault overturned our assumptions about the experience and perception of madness, sexuality and criminality, and the often brutal social practices of confinement, confession and discipline. It also describes Foucault's engagement with psychiatry and clinical medicine, his political activism and the transgressive aspects of pleasure and desire that he promoted in his writing.
