Title: The Foucault reader /
Authors: Foucault, Michel,; Rabinow, Paul
Date: 1984
Publisher: Pantheon Books,
Physical description: viii, 390 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: B
Abstract: Michael Foucault's writing has shaped the teaching of half a dozen disciplines, ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But none of his books offers a satisfactory introduction to the entire complex body of his work. The Foucault Reader precisely serves that purpose. It contains selections from each area of Foucault's thought, a wealth of previously unpublished writings, and an interview with Foucault during which he discusses his philosophy with unprecedented candor.
Contents: What is enlightenment? -- Truth and power -- Nietzsche, genealogy, history -- What is an author? -- The great confinement -- The birth of the asylum -- The body of the condemned -- Docile bodies -- The means of correct training -- Panopticism -- Complete and austere institutions -- Illegalities and delinquency -- The carceral -- Space, knowledge, and power -- Right of death and power over life -- The politics of health in the eighteenth century -- We "Other Victorians" -- The repressive hypothesis -- Preface to The history of sexuality, volume II -- On the genealogy of ethics : an overview of work in progress -- Politics and ethics : an interview.
Subject headings (LCSH): Ethics, Modern--20th century; Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984--Political and social views.; Philosophy; Power (Philosophy)