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News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Michel Foucault | History of Sexuality | Philosophers Explained | Stephen Hicks, Feb 10, 2024 “The History of Sexuality” is Michel Foucault’s examination of the history of discourse about and practice of sexuality over the past three centuries. While sexuality was open in the seventeenth century and relatively closed through the Victorian era, it might …

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L’abécédaire de Michel Foucault. Revue Ballast 25 janvier 2023 […] nous prolongeons la discussion en 26 lettres. Anormal : « Par pensée médicale, j’entends une façon de percevoir les choses qui s’organise autour de la norme, c’est-à-dire qui essaie de partager ce qui est normal de ce qui est anormal, qui n’est pas tout à …

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Editor: Perlego, an ebook library launched in 2016, offers a paid subscription service to access a variety of academic and professional ebooks. They have a very substantial collection of currently 431 books relating to Foucault, mainly in English, but also in French, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese. The collection also includes a selection of works …

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Foucault’s Theory of Power & Knowledge: An Introduction, Perlego, online subscription library of e-books What is Foucault’s Theory of Power and Knowledge? Michel Foucault (1926-89) was a French philosopher and sociologist notable for his works Madness and Civilization (1961), Discipline and Punish (1975) and The History of Sexuality (1976). A persistent theme in Foucault’s work …

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Tony Schirato, Geoff Danaher and Jen Webb, Understanding Foucault: A critical introduction, 2nd edition, Allen and Unwin. Available March 2012 Publisher’s page Michel Foucault is now regarded as one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. He is known for his sensibility of critique and his commitment to movements for social change. His …

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Anne Schwan, Stephen Shapiro, How to Read Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, London: Pluto Press, 2011, ISBN: 9780745329819 Publication date: 20 July 2011 Publisher’s page Description Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish is one of the best-selling works of critical theory and a key text on many undergraduate courses. However, it is a long, difficult text which …

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