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A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part ...
The Birth of the Prison
'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book Review The grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has b...
Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge—are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Mi...
An Archaeology of Human Sciences
In the work that established him as the most important French thinker since Sartre, Michel Foucault offers startling evidence that "man"—man as a su...
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This translation of The History of Madness in the Classical Age is the first English edition of the original, complete French text and includes import...
Foucault's brief but extraordinarily rich essay offers a startling, highly provocative view of a painter whose influence and popularity continue to gr...
When one defines "order" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he wea...
Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984
The late Michael Foucault left behind an impressive collection of interviews that demonstrate the breadth and diversity of his concerns and offer a un...
First Published in 1999. Postmodern theorist Michel Foucault is best known for his work on power/ knowledge, and on the regulation of sexuality in mod...
The History of Sexuality, Volume 4
The fourth and final volume in Michel Foucault’s acclaimed History of Sexuality, completed just before his death in 1984 and finally available to th...
A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reform...
The Use of Pleasure
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Pantheon Books, 1985....
On Human Nature
In this historic 1971 debate, two of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers discuss whether there is such a thing as innate human nature....
Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He an...
Lectures at the College de France 1981-1982
The Hermeneutics of the Subject is the third volume in the collection of Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France, one of the world's most...
Two hundred years later, Michel Foucault wrote a response to Kant's initial essay, positioning Kant as the initiator of the discourse and critique of ...
A Seminar with Michel Foucault
This volume is a wonderful introduction to Foucault and a testimony to the deep humanity of the man himself....
Michael Foucault's writing has shaped the teaching of half a dozen disciplines, ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But non...
The Chomsky-Foucault Debate
In 1971, at a time of enormous political and social change, two of the world's leading intellectuals, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, were invited b...
An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
This book is one of the many Islamic publications distributed by Mustafa Organization throughout the world in different languages with the aim of conv...
(interviews, 1966-84)
The most accessible and exhaustive introduction to Foucault's thought to date, including every extant interview made by Foucault from the mid-60s unti...
Foucault's classic methodological statement....
Lectures given as part of Foucault's seminar on Discourse and truth, at the University of California at Berkeley, 1983. The seminar was devoted to the...
Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984
'Foucault leaves no reader untouched or unchanged' Edward Said Aesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault's courses, ...
Collected Interviews, 1961-1984
Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
This book, which Foucault himself has judged accurate, is the first to provide a sustained, coherent analysis of Foucault's work as a whole. To demons...
Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate
The book juxtaposes key texts from Foucault and Habermas; it then adds a set of reactions and commentaries by theorists who have taken up the two alte...
In the Middle Ages there were gaols and dungeons, but punishment was for the most part a spectacle. The economic changes and growing popular dissent o...
Lectures at the College de France, 1982-1983
An exciting and highly original examination of the practices of truth-telling and speaking out freely (parresia) in ancient Greek tragedy and philosop...
Lectures at the College de France 1974-1975
Studies in Governmentality
Based on Foucault's 1978 and 1979 lectures on rationalities of government, this work examines the art or activity of government and the different ways...
Newly published lectures by Foucault on madness, literature, and structuralism. Perceiving an enigmatic relationship between madness, language, and li...
The World of Raymond Roussel
Death and the Labyrinth is unique, being Foucault's only work on literature. For Foucault this was "by far the book I wrote most easily and with the g...
An Introduction
Why we are so fascinated with sex and sexuality—from the preeminent philosopher of the 20th century. Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic explorat...
Lectures at the Collége de France, 1974–1975
Three decades after his death, Michel Foucault remains one of the towering intellectual figures of the last half-century. His works on sexuality, madn...