Michel Foucault
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Michel Foucault
（Key sociologists / edited by Peter Hamilton）
Routledge, 2002
Rev. ed
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- hbk
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Previous ed.: Chichester: Ellis Horwood, 1985
Description and Table of Contents
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hbk ISBN 9780415285322
Description
It is impossible to imagine contemporary critical theory without the work of Michel Foucault. His radical reworkings of the concepts of power, knowledge, discourse and identity have influenced the widest possible range of theories and impacted upon disciplinary fields from literary studies to anthropology. Aimed at students approaching Foucault's texts for the first time, this volume offers:
* an examination of Foucault's contexts
* a guide to his key ideas
* an overview of responses to his work
* practical hints on 'using Foucault'
* an annotated guide to his most influential works
* suggestions for further reading.
Challenging not just what we think but how we think, Foucault's work remains the subject of heated debate. Sara Mills' Michel Foucault offers an introduction to both the ideas and the debate, fully equipping student readers for an encounter with this most influential of thinkers.
Table of Contents
- Reconsidering Foucault
- major themes and issues
- on confinement - madness, reason and the asylum
- the Birth of the clinic
- an archaeology of the human sciences
- a theory of discourse
- from archaeology to genealogy
- questions of methods of analysis
- archaeology
- archaeology and science
- genealogy
- science and critique
- on intellectuals
- subjects of power, objects of knowledge
- discipline and punish
- power, knowledge and the body
- power
- discipline and punishment
- discipline
- the carceral network and the formation of the human sciences
- on the subject of sexuality
- sexuality and repression
- classes of sex
- power over life - a summary
- objectification, subjectification, and the human sciences
- a genealogy of the subject
- The "culture of self"
- the state, resistance and rationality
- power and the state
- on the government
- the question of resistance
- forms of rationality.
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pbk. ISBN 9780415285339
Description
In investigating the major works of Michel Foucault, Barry Smart focuses on the analysis of the relations of power and knowledge and modes of objectification through which human beings are made subjects; and addresses controversial issues concerning the state and resistance to power. The development of Foucault's work from the early text on madness to the final studies of sexuality, and the question of the work's methodological value and status as a form of critical analysis, are reviewed comprehensively.
Barry Smart's detailed discussion of the contribution of Foucault's work to social analysis and research will promote fresh interest in the stimulating originality of Foucault's project.
Table of Contents
Editor's Foreword Preface and Acknowledgements Reconsidering Foucault Introduction 1. Major Themes and Issues 2. Questions of Methods of Analysis 3. Subjects of Power, Objects of Knowledge 4. The State, Resistance and Rationality 5. Suggestions for Further Reading Index
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