Power: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984

Author:   Michel Foucault ,  Robert Hurley ,  James D Faubion (Rice University, Houston) ,  Paul Rabinow
Publisher:   The New Press
Volume:   03
ISBN:  

9781565842571


Pages:   488
Publication Date:   19 October 2000
Format:   Hardback
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Power: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984


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Part of the definitive collection of Michel Foucault's articles, interviews, and seminars, this volume lays out the philosopher's influential thinking on the machinations of power in society The New York Times Book Review . Power includes previously unpublished lectures, later writings highlighting Foucault's revolutionary analysis of the politics of personal conduct and freedom, interviews, and letters that illuminate Foucault's own political activism.

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Author:   Michel Foucault ,  Robert Hurley ,  James D Faubion (Rice University, Houston) ,  Paul Rabinow
Publisher:   The New Press
Imprint:   The New Press
Volume:   03
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9781565842571


ISBN 10:   156584257
Pages:   488
Publication Date:   19 October 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  General ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you.
Language:   English & French

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A rare opportunity to see how a great and original mind produces its work as well as itself at the same time. . . . Leaves no reader untouched or unchanged. Edward Said, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> Ignore those who dismiss [Foucault] without having bothered to read him: You must change your life. <i>Talk</i>


A rare opportunity to see how a great and original mind produces its work as well as itself at the same time. . . . Leaves no reader untouched or unchanged. --Edward Said, The New York Times Book Review Ignore those who dismiss [Foucault] without having bothered to read him: You must change your life. -- Talk


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Michel Foucault (19261984) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. He held a chair in the history of systems of thought at the Collge de France and lectured at universities throughout the world. The New Press has published his books Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology; Ethics; Power; The Essential Foucault; and The Chomsky-Foucault Debate (with Noam Chomsky). Foucault's other books include Madness and Civilization, Discipline and Punish, The Order of Things, and The History of Sexuality. James D. Faubion is a professor of anthropology at Rice University. He is the author of The Shadows and Lights of Waco and Modern Greek Lessons and the editor of Michel Foucault's Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology and Power, both available from The New Press.

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