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How to Read Foucault

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Availability:In StockContributor:Johanna Oksala, Simon Critchley (Editor)Series:How to Read #0Publish date:2008-08-01Pages:130
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393328196ISBN-10:393328198UPC:9780393328196Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:CriticismSize:7.50 x 5.00 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SCDH3WG5X3

Michel Foucault was a philosopher of extraordinary talent, political activist, social theorist, cultural critic, and creative historian. He irreversibly shaped the way 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 necessity 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.


Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393328196ISBN-10:393328198UPC:9780393328196Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:CriticismSize:7.50 x 5.00 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SCDH3WG5X3
Oksala, Johanna: - Johanna Oksala is senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Dundee and a member of the Centre of Excellence in Political Thought and Conceptual Chance at the University of Jyväskylä. She is the author of Foucault on Freedom.
Critchley, Simon: - Simon Critchley is a best-selling author and the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His many books include The Book of Dead Philosophers, Bowie, and Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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