1970
| When one defines "order" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology in The Order of Things , possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the twentieth century. Eclipsed by his later work on power and discourse, nonetheless it was The Order of Things that established Foucault's reputation as ....[more] |
1972
| Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge-are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and the way we think. The Archaeology of Knowledge begins at the level of 'things said' and moves quickly to illuminate the connections between knowledge, language, and action in a style at once profound and personal. |
2005
| This translation is the first English edition of the original, complete French edition. It includes new several chapters and much crucial philosophical and historical material, until now, unavailable in English.Provocatively challenging entrenched views of madness and reason, it is one of the classics of twentieth-century literature. It is Foucault's first major work and written in a dazzling and enigmatic literary style. It also introduces many of the inspiring and radical themes that he was to....[more] |
1988
| Politics, Philosophy, Culturecontains a rich selection of interviews and other writings by the late Michel Foucault. Drawing upon his revolutionary concept of power as well as his critique of the institutions that organize social life, Foucault discusses literature, music and the power of art while also examining concrete issues such as the Left in contemporary France, the social security system, the penal system, homosexuality, madness, and the Iranian Revolution. |
1987
| Explores theory, criticism and psychology through the texts of Raymond Roussel, one of the fathers of experimental writing, whose work has been celebrated by the likes of Cocteau, Duchamp, Breton, Robbe Grillet, Gide, and Giacometti. This work includes an introduction, chronology and bibliography to Foucault's work. |
1981
| With this book Paul Virilio inaugurated the new science whose object of study is the "dromocratic" revolution. |
1976
| This seminal early work of Foucault is indispensable to understanding his development as a thinker. Written in 1954 and revised in 1962,Mental Illness and Psychologydelineates the shift that occurred in Foucault's thought during this period. The first iteration reflects the philosopher's early interest in and respect for Freud and the psychoanalytic tradition. The second part, rewritten in 1962, marks a dramatic change in Foucault's thinking. Examining the history of madness as a social and cult....[more] |
1970
| Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History of Sexuality. But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind these difficult individual studies, thus losing s....[more] |
2003
| From 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the world-famous College de France. Attended by thousands, these were seminal events in the world of French letters. Picador is proud to be publishing the lectures in thirteen volumes. The lectures comprising Abnormal begin by examining the role of psychiatry in modern criminal justice, and its method of categorizing individuals who "resemble their crime before they commit it." Building on the themes of societal self-defense in ....[more] |
2002
| An examination of the relation between war and politics, by one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers From 1971 until 1984 at the Collegrave;ge de France, Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures ranging freely and conversationally over the range of his research. In Society Must Be Defended, Foucault deals with the emergence in the early seventeenth century of a new understanding of war as the permanent basis of all institutions of power, a hidden presence within society that cou....[more] |
2001
| Few if any philosophers have had the impact on contemporary thought that Michel Foucault has. His complete uncollected writings, under the title Dits et ecrits, were published in French by Gallimard in 1994, and The New Press's three-volume Essential Works of Foucault series, edited by Paul Rabinow, brings the most important of these works -- courses, articles, and interviews, much of it translated into English for the first time -- to American readers. Power draws together Foucault's contributi....[more] |
1999
| Postmodern theorist Michel Foucault is best known for his work on "power/ knowledge", and on the regulation of sexuality in modern society. Yet throughout his life, Foucault was continually concerned with Christianity, other spiritual movements and religious traditions, and the death of God, and these themes and materials scattered are throughout his many writings.Religion and Culturecollects for the first time this important thinker's work on religion, religious experience, and society. Here ar....[more] |
1998
| The definitive edition of Foucault's articles, interviews, and seminars. 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, Me....[more] |
1993
| Critique is the movement by which the subject gives himself the right to question truth on its effects of power and question power on its discourses of truth. Well, then! Critique will be the art of voluntary insubordination and reflected intractability. It would essentially ensure the desubjugation of the subject in the context of what we could call, in a word, the politics of truth. |
1989
| The Normal and the Pathologicalis one of the crucial contributions to the history of science in the last half century. Canguilhem analyzes the radically new way in which health and disease were defined in the early nineteenth century, showing that the emerging categories of the normal and the pathological were far from being objective scientific concepts. He demonstrates how the epistemological foundations of modern biology and medicine were intertwined with political, economic, and technologica....[more] |
1987
| In these two essays, two of the most important French thinkers of our time reflect on each other's work. In so doing, novelist/essayist Maurice Blanchot and philosopher Michel Foucault develop a new perspective on the relationship between subjectivity, fiction, and the will to truth. The two texts present reflections on writing, language, and representation which question the status of the author/subject and explore the notion of a "neutral" voice that arises from the realm of the "outside." Thi....[more] |
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