Power: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984 Volume Three

Foucault, Michel; Edited by James D. Faubion ; Translated by Robert Hurley And Others

ISBN 10: 156584257X / ISBN 13: 9781565842571

Published by New York: The New Press, 2000

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Number line beginning with 1. Very good plus, if not near fine and perhaps fine hardback in near fine dust jacket ($30.00 U.S.A.). Limited underlining in black ink on 25 of 484 pages. Dust jacket has minor, if not trivial rubbing/wear to panels and too top edge; slight, if not very slight fading to green lettering on spine and name and address of previous owner (2.5 inch by 1.25 inch) in upper fore-edge corner of front free endpaper. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Power: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984 Volume Three
• Publisher: New York: The New Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 156584257X
• ISBN 13: 9781565842571
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

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

“A rare opportunity to see how a great and original mind produces its work as well as itself at the same time. . . . Foucault’s work . . . leaves no reader untouched or unchanged.” —Edward Said, The New York Times Book Review

Power draws together Michel Foucault’s contributions to what he saw as the still-underdeveloped practice of political analysis. It covers the domains Foucault helped to make part of the core agenda of Western political culture—medicine, psychiatry, the penal system, sexuality—illuminating and expanding on the themes of The Birth of the Clinic, Discipline and Punish, and the first volume of The History of Sexuality.

Power includes previously unpublished lectures, later writings highlighting Foucault’s revolutionary analysis of the politics of personal conduct and freedom, interviews, and letters that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.

About the Author

Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. He held a chair in the history of systems of thought at the Collège 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.