Michel Foucault

Traces the literary, philosophical, and moral themes of madness as well as its social and theological impact in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries

A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Madness and Civilization

Gilles Deleuze

Félix Guattari

Mark Seem

"First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press 1977"--T.p. verso.

Capitalism and Schizophrenia

Anti-Oedipus

Traces the evolution of man's study of himself from seventeenth-century human sciences

An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

The Order of Things

By Michel Foucault

The Archaeology of Knowledge

Study of the intersection of history and philosophy as it relates to recent French political change, evidenced in essays concerning popular justice, power struggles, and the history of sexuality

Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977

Power/knowledge

Noam Chomsky

"Chomsky vs Foucault" deals with current affairs/political science.

On Human Nature

The Chomsky-Foucault Debate

What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? Ren� Magritte's famous canvas provides the starting point for a delightful homage by the French philosopher-historian Michel Foucault. Much better known for his incisive and mordant explorations of power and social exclusion, Foucault here assumes a more playful stance. By exploring the nuances and ambiguities of Magritte's visual critique of language, he finds the painter less removed than previously thought from the pioneers of modern abstraction--"confronting them and within a common system, a figure at once opposed and complementary." Foucault's brief but extraordinarily rich essay offers a startling, highly provocative view of a painter whose influence and popularity continue to grow unchecked. This is Not a Pipe also throws a new, piquantly dancing light on Foucault himself.

This is Not a Pipe

Gathers selections from the writings of the modern French philosopher about truth, knowledge, madness, science, sexuality, politics, and ethics

The Foucault Reader

The History of Sexuality, Volume 1

François Ewald

Exploring the interrelationship between war and politics, a series of lectures by the late French philosopher traces the evolution of a new understanding of society and its relation to war, revealing war as the permanent basis of all institutions of power. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976

"Society Must Be Defended"

In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that could be mapped. Disease became subject to new rules of classification. And doctors begin to describe phenomena that for centuries had remained below the threshold of the visible and expressible. In The Birth of the Clinic the philosopher and intellectual historian who may be the true heir to Nietzsche charts this dramatic transformation of medical knowledge. As in his classic Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault shows how much what we think of as pure science owes to social and cultural attitude—in this case, to the climate of the French Revolution. Brilliant, provocative, and omnivorously learned, his book sheds new light on the origins of our current notions of health and sickness, life and death.

An Archaeology of Medical Perception

The Birth of the Clinic

A sixth compilation of lectures delivered at the Collège de France between 1970 and 1984 continues the speaker's coverage of 18th-century political economy, evaluating its role in the origins of a liberal governmental rationality that is at the heart of current debates about the role and status of neo-liberalism today. 10,000 first printing. Reprint.

Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978--1979

The Birth of Biopolitics

Explores the foundations of modern medicine and the factors that forged its development in the early 1800s

Sorvegliare e punire. Nascita della prigione

Quizás hoy provoquen vergüenza nuestras prisiones. El siglo XIX se sentía orgulloso de las fortalezas que construía en los limites de las ciudades y, a veces, en el corazón de éstas. Se complacia en esa nueva benignidad que reemplazaba los patíbulos. Se maravillaba de no castigar ya los cuerpos y de saber corregir en adelante las almas. Aquellos muros, aquellos cerrojos, aquellas celdas figuraban una verdadera empresa de ortopedia social. Quienes robaban eran encarcelados, también aquellos que violaban o mataban. El siglo XIX inventó, sin duda, las libertades, pero les dio un subsuelo profundo y sólido: la sociedad disciplinaria, de la que aún dependemos.

Vigilar y castigar

Bu Bir Pipo Degildir

المراقبة والمعاقبة

'A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that "in the beginning" sexual activity was guilt-free and delicious, being repressed and blighted only by the gloom of Victorianism' Spectator We talk about sex more and more, but are we more liberated? The first part of Michel Foucault's landmark account of our evolving attitudes in the west shows how the nineteenth century, far from suppressing sexuality, led to an explosion of discussion about sex as a separate sphere of life for study and examination. As a result, he argues, we are making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase of pleasure. 'A wealth of insights, original conceptualizations and provocative ideas' The Times Literary Supplement

The Will to Knowledge

The History of Sexuality: 1

A third collection of lectures at the Collge de France sheds new light on the concepts of the "self" and the "care of the self" have been conceived in ancient philosophy, beginning with Socrates, arguing that the problems of the ethical formation of the self form the foundation for modern conceptions of the self and contemporary moral thought. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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