The Foucault Reader

Michel Foucault; Paul Rabinow, editor

ISBN 10: 0394713400 / ISBN 13: 9780394713403

Published by Pantheon Books, 1984

About this Item

Stated First Edition. Bright & tight copy, unread, in Good condition, w/uniform yellowing of pages, o/w unmarked. 390pp. "Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. THE FOUCAULT READER contains selections from each area of Foucault's work as well as a wealth of previously unpublished writings, including important material written especially for this volume, the preface to the long-awaited second volume of The History of Sexuality, and interviews with Foucault himself, in the course of which he discussed his philosophy at first hand and with unprecedented candor. This philosophy comprises an astonishing intellectual enterprise: a minute and ongoing investigation of the nature of power in society. Foucault's analyses of this power as it manifests itself in society, schools, hospitals, factories, homes, families, and other forms of organized society are brought together in THE FOUCAULT READER to create an overview of this theme and of the broad social and political vision that underlies it." [publisher copy] Good condition paperback has clean cover w/photo of Foucault confronting us, w/no creases in spine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Foucault Reader
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394713400
• ISBN 13: 9780394713403
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Michel Foucault was one of the most influential philosophical thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But of his many books, not one offers a satisfactory introduction to the entire complex body of his work. The Foucault Reader was commissioned precisely to serve that purpose.

The Reader contains selections from each area of Foucault's work as well as a wealth of previously unpublished writings, including important material written especially for this volume, the preface to the long-awaited second volume of The History of Sexuality, and interviews with Foucault himself, in the course of which he discussed his philosophy at first hand and with unprecedented candor.

This philosophy comprises an astonishing intellectual enterprise: a minute and ongoing investigation of the nature of power in society. Foucault's analyses of this power as it manifests itself in society, schools, hospitals, factories, homes, families, and other forms of organized society are brought together in The Foucault Reader to create an overview of this theme and of the broad social and political vision that underlies it.

About the Author

Michel Foucault was born in Poitiers, France, in 1926. He lecturerd in universities throughout the world; served as director at the Institut Francais in Hamburg, Germany and at the Institut de Philosophi at the Faculte des Lettres in the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France; and wrote frequently for French newspapers and reviews. At the time of his death in 1984, he held a chair at France's most prestigious institutions, the College de France.