The Foucault Reader by Michel Foucault, ISBN-13: 978-0394713403

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The Foucault Reader by Michel Foucault, ISBN-13: 978-0394713403

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• Publisher: ‎ Pantheon (November 12, 1984)
• Language: ‎ English
• 400 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0394713400
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0394713403

Michel Foucault was one of the most influential philosophical thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But of his many books, not one offers a satisfactory introduction to the entire complex body of his work. The Foucault Reader was commissioned precisely to serve that purpose.

The Reader contains selections from each area of Foucault’s work as well as a wealth of previously unpublished writings, including important material written especially for this volume, the preface to the long-awaited second volume of The History of Sexuality, and interviews with Foucault himself, in the course of which he discussed his philosophy at first hand and with unprecedented candor.

This philosophy comprises an astonishing intellectual enterprise: a minute and ongoing investigation of the nature of power in society. Foucault’s analyses of this power as it manifests itself in society, schools, hospitals, factories, homes, families, and other forms of organized society are brought together in The Foucault Reader to create an overview of this theme and of the broad social and political vision that underlies it.

Table of Contents:

Contributors

Introduction

David Couzens Hoy 1

The Archaeology of Foucault

Foucault and Epistemology

Richard Rorty 41

The Politics of Michel Foucault

Michael Walzer 51

Foucault on Freedom and Truth

Charles Taylor 69

Taking Aim at the Heart of the Present

Jurgen Habermas 103

What Is Maturity? Habermas and Foucault on

‘What Is Enlightenment?’

Hubert L. Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow 109

Power, Repression, Progress: Foucault, Lukes, and the

Frankfurt School

David Couzens Hoy 123

Foucault and the Imagination of Power

Edward W. Said 149

The Politics of Truth and the Problem of Hegemony

Barry Smart

In the Empire of the Gaze: Foucault and the Denigration

of Vision in Twentieth-century French Thought 157

Martin Jay 175

Foucault and the Tyranny of Greece

Mark Poster 205

Archaeology, Genealogy, Ethics

Arnold I. Davidson 221

Self-Improvement

Ian Hacking 235

Index 241

Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was acknowledged as the preeminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, and continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines. His books include The Government of Self and Others, The Courage of Truth, The Birth of Biopolitics, and The Punitive Society.

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