Understanding Foucault
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: June 22, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780761968153
Subjects: Interdisciplinary Studies; Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Sociology, Social Studies; Philosophy; Philosophy Of The 20th Century; History & Surveys - Modern; Sociology - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; 1926-1984; Foucault, Michel; Foucault, Michel,
First sentence: The French cultural theorist Michel de Certeau tells a story about Michel Foucault being bombarded, at a press conference in Belo Horizonte in Brazil, with questions and criticisms concerning his politics, his beliefs, where he was coming from, and what his works 'really meant' (Certeau 1986: 193).