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Description: Further DetailsTitle: Introducing FoucaultCondition: NewEAN: 9781848310605ISBN: 9781848310605Edition: Revised editionPublisher: Icon BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/04/2009Item Height: 168mmItem Length: 118mmItem Width: 13mmItem Weight: 159gAuthor: Chris HorrocksIllustrator: Zoran JevticContributor: Zoran Jevtic (Illustrated by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: A Graphic GuideDescription: Michel Foucault's work was described at his death as 'the most important event of thought in our century'. As a philosopher, historian and political activist, he certainly left behind an enduring and influential body of work, but is this acclaim justified? "Introducing Foucault" places his work in its turbulent philosophical and political context, and critically explores his mission to expose the links between knowledge and power in the human sciences, their discourses and institutions. This book explains how Foucault overturned our assumptions about the experience and perception of madness, sexuality and criminality, and the often brutal social practices of confinement, confession and discipline. It also describes Foucault's engagement with psychiatry and clinical medicine, his political activism and the transgressive aspects of pleasure and desire that he promoted in his writing.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Introducing...Release Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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