Foucault for beginners
Material type: TextPublication details: Duxford, Cambridge Icon 1997Description: 175 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781874166542
- 809.9384 FOU
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Foucault for Beginners places Foucault's 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. Chris Horrocks 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. He describes Foucault's engagement with psychiatry and clinical medicine, his political activism and the transgressive aspects of pleasure and desire which he promoted in his writing. Zoran Jevtic's inspired illustrations give an added dimension to this fascinating introduction to a major 20th century thinker
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