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This book covers the topics Foucault helped make the core agenda of Western political culture - medicine, prisons, psychiatry, government and sexuality - emphasising Foucault's practical concern with discrimination, coercion and exclusion in human society.
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One of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century and the most prominent thinker in post-war France, Foucault's work influenced disciplines as diverse as history, sociology, philosophy, sociology and literary criticism.
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What I would like to tell you in these lectures are some things that may be inexact, untrue, or erroneous, which I will present as working hypotheses, with a view to a future work. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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What I would like to tell you in these lectures are some things that may be inexact, untrue, or erroneous, which I will present as working hypotheses, with a view to a future work. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this for just a few of the essays contained within, however, I've found it quite fun just to dip into. Some of the essays are quite short and accessible and Foucault was quite a funny guy in interviews. Enjoy.
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Not Just for Foucault Fanatics
9 Jan 2001
Format:Hardcover
This collection of Foucault's essays, lectures, interviews, and editorials, offers even the casual reader of Foucault welcome insights into his methods, his intellectual biography and the development of his own methods. Most valuable perhaps are interviews collected from various magazines where he is challenged by his interviewers to respond to their criticisms and the criticisms of others. In one, for instance, Foucault tries hard to correct those who read his works as a totalizing critique of capitalism, or the current penal system, or the mental institution. He insists that his works are only intended to be seen as the history of various specific institutions and that those critics and followers who are tempted to project his findings onto current practices distort his intent. Whether or not you believe him, his defense of his method and his avowed intent are compelling. In another, he also quickly and cogently characterizes his two main intellectual influences, Hegelism and phenomenology, explains why he rejected these particular philosophical trends, but how they nevertheless challenged him to arrive at his own agenda and the course of his studies. Throughout Foucault is ruthlessly honest about his own failings -- for instance his lack of knowledge about the Frankfurt School, and thoughtful -- his appraisal of the problems that inhere in national healthcare programs, which he generally supports but with interesting qualifications. The editorials, while they address issues that may seem remote or dated, demonstrate that he was actively engaged in the politics of his time, and show how he applies his analytical methods to current events. Some selections will be of interest only to the Foucault fanatic or to his biographers, which is the reason for the four star, instead of the five-star, rating. Highly recommended.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Review of Rabinow's 'Foucault : Power'
15 Mar 2011
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I suppose this work wins big for the simple volume of material presented. The large collection of essays, lectures and interviews really digs into every little corner of Foucault's thought on power, including its slow development toward ethics. The collection also contains more than a hundred pages on Foucault's political activities. Again, the introduction is lengthy, thorough and very great at summarizing a complex system of thought.
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful
mind cuddling perverse incentives
11 April 2012
Format:Paperback
It was possible for some people to tell dirty jokes when I was growing up, but the upper crust of ethical mentalities wanted to hide the women and children when ideas which would not be productive for loving relationships were revealed when some innocent mind tried to understand what a joke like:
LBJ! Pull out like your father should have!
was expressing on an emotional level as jokes became part of protests against American policy in Vietnam. Deep in this book, on considerations of subjectivity, there is a topic question:
What constitutes the specificity of power relations?
In a society in which officials react to secret circus stunt events, security is part of an instinct that tries to avoid panic. What happens "is not by nature the manifestation of consensus." Escalation to show resolve by calling on something called national honor is a perverse way to "seek the character proper to power relations in the violence that must have been its primitive form, its permanent secret, and last resort, that which in the final analysis appears as its real nature when it is forced to throw aside its mask and to show itself as it really is" when guys get sent to Vietnam and women and children think something strange is going on if anyone talks about it. Thank God for sex, so bisexuality can welcome out some other perverse incentive.
LBJ! Pull out like your father should have!
was expressing on an emotional level as jokes became part of protests against American policy in Vietnam. Deep in this book, on considerations of subjectivity, there is a topic question:
What constitutes the specificity of power relations?
In a society in which officials react to secret circus stunt events, security is part of an instinct that tries to avoid panic. What happens "is not by nature the manifestation of consensus." Escalation to show resolve by calling on something called national honor is a perverse way to "seek the character proper to power relations in the violence that must have been its primitive form, its permanent secret, and last resort, that which in the final analysis appears as its real nature when it is forced to throw aside its mask and to show itself as it really is" when guys get sent to Vietnam and women and children think something strange is going on if anyone talks about it. Thank God for sex, so bisexuality can welcome out some other perverse incentive.
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