How to Read Foucault - How to Read

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Michel Foucault was a twentieth-century philosopher of extraordinary talent, a political activist, social theorist, cultural critic and creative historian. He shaped the ways we think today about such controversial issues as power, sexuality, madness and criminality. Johanna Oksala explores the conceptual tools that Foucault gave us for constructing new forms of thinking as well as for smashing old certainties. She offers a lucid account of him as a thinker whose persistent aim was to challenge the self-evidence and seeming inevitability of our current experiences, practices and institutions by showing their historical development and, therefore, contingency. Extracts are taken from the whole range of Foucault's writings - his books, essays, lectures and interviews - including the major works History of Madness,The Order of Things, Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality.

Book information

ISBN: 9781862077676
Publisher: Granta Publications
Imprint: Granta Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 194
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 116
Weight: 150g
Height: 196mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 9mm