The Cambridge companion to Foucault
By: edited by Gary Gutting.
Contributors: Gutting, Gary.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Cambridge companions to philosophy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 465
Subjects: Foucault, Michel
Description: "The essays in this volume provide a systematic and comprehensive overview of Foucault's major themes and texts, from his early work on madness through his history of sexuality. Special attention is also paid to thinkers and movements, from Kant through current feminist theory, that are particularly important for understanding his work and its impact. This revised edition contains five new essays and revisions of many others. The extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources has been updated."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foucault's mapping of history / Thomas Flynn; title: Foucault and the history of madness / Gary Gutting; title: The death of man, or, Exhaustion of the cogito? / translated by Catherine Porter ; Georges Canguilhem; title: Power? Knowledge / Joseph Rouse; title: Ethics as ascetics : Foucault, the history of ethics, and ancient thought /  Arnold Davidson; title: Michel Foucault's ethical imagination / James Bernauer and Michael Mahon; title: The analytic of finitude and the history of subjectivity / Beatrice Han-Pile; title: Foucault's encounter with Heidegger and Nietzsche / Hans Sluga; title: Foucault and Habermas / David Ingram; title: Foucault's relation to phenomenology / Todd May; title: Against interiority : Foucault's struggle with psychoanalysis; title: Joel Whitebook; title: Foucault's modernism / Gerald Bruns; title: Queering Foucault and the subject of feminism / Jana Sawicki.