The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault

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ID19919271
AuthorsLisa Downing (0000-0001-9241-7572, University of Exeter, corresponding author)
Year2008
Publication date2008-09-11
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511793240
OpenAlexW4230076901
Open LibraryOL34452349M
ISBN9780511793240
LanguageEN
Citations received33

French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault is essential reading for students in departments of literature, history, sociology and cultural studies. His work on the institutions of mental health and medicine, the history of systems of knowledge, literature and literary theory, criminality and the prison system, and sexuality, has had a profound and enduring impact across the humanities and social sciences. This introductory book, written for students, offers in-depth critical and contextual perspectives on all of Foucault's major published works. It provides ways in to understanding Foucault's key concepts of subjectivity, discourse, and power and explains the problems of translation encountered in reading Foucault in English. The book also explores the critical reception of Foucault's works and acquaints the reader with the afterlives of some of his theories, particularly his influence on feminist and queer studies. This book offers the ideal introduction to a famously complex, controversial and important thinker

Criminology · Critical theory · Epistemology · Human sexuality · Ideal (ethics) · Linguistics · Michel foucault · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Prison · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Reading (process) · Sociology · Subjectivity · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · michel Foucault (1926-1984)

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