Power / Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977

Foucault, Michel; Gordon, Colin (editor)

ISBN 10: 039473954X / ISBN 13: 9780394739540

Editore: Pantheon Books, New York, 1980

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ISBN: 0-394-73954-X, Light shelf rubbing, faint spotting to the top and fore-edge, very little wear overall. Text is clean. 'Now in this superb set of essays and interviews, [the author] provides a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enable Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent - and terrifying - portrait of society that he is patiently compiling.' 270 pages.

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• Titolo: Power / Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
• Editore: Pantheon Books, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 1980
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 039473954X
• ISBN 13: 9780394739540
• Rilegatura: Trade Paperback
• Condizione: Good
• Tipo di libro: Book
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Riassunto

Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History of Sexuality. But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind these difficult individual studies, thus losing sight of the broad social vision and political aims that unified them.

Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent -- and terrifying -- portrait of society that he was patiently compiling.

For, as Foucault shows, what he was always describing was the nature of power in society; not the conventional treatment of power that concentrates on powerful individuals and repressive institutions, but the much more pervasive and insidious mechanisms by which power "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives"

Foucault's investigations of prisons, schools, barracks, hospitals, factories, cities, lodgings, families, and other organized forms of social life are each a segment of one of the most astonishing intellectual enterprises of all time -- and, as this book proves, one which possesses profound implications for understanding the social control of our bodies and our minds.

Informazioni sull'autore

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.