O'farrell: Michel Foucault (paper)Michel Foucault's work is one of the most influential sources of ideas in the humanities and social sciences today. Clare O'Farrell offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to Foucault's enormous, diverse and challenging output. Her book provides a range of practical tools and a reference work for readers who wish to understand and apply his ideas at both introductory and advanced levels. This volume includes: - a discussion of Foucault's situation in the contemporary context exploring his role as an iconic thinker, with clear explanations as to why his work is so difficult to come to grips with, and also importantly, why it is of interest to so many people. - the location of Foucault's work within its own historical, social and political setting. - brief summaries in chronological order of all of Foucault's major works, including the more recently published volumes of lectures. - the organization of Foucault's work around five distinct but interrelated series of assumptions which underpin his world view: namely order, history, truth, power and ethics. Ideas for which he is well-known, such as archaeology, genealogy, discourse, discipline, governmentality, the subject and others are defined and discussed within the framework of these five assumptions. - a chronology of Foucault's life, work and times. - a very extensive list of key concepts in Foucault's work with detailed references pointing to where the relevant material can be found in his writings. - a wide-ranging list of resources and a bibliography of Foucault's work for easy consultation. |
Contents
One A Cultural Icon | 1 |
Cultural Contexts | 19 |
Three Foucaults Major Works | 33 |
Four | 49 |
The Unconscious of History and Culture | 61 |
Seven Truth and Culture | 83 |
Eight | 96 |
Nine | 109 |
Chronology of Foucaults Life and Times | 121 |
Index | 168 |
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Common terms and phrases
analysis Ancient Greek anti-psychiatry appear Archaeology of Knowledge behaviour biopolitics biopower characterises Collège de France contemporary context criticises critics critique cultural studies death defined definitions Descartes disciplinary power Discipline and Punish discourse discursive practice discussion Dits et écrits DP pt dreams economic eighteenth century English ethics examination example exercise of power existence experience forms of knowledge Foucault argues Foucault describes Foucault notes Foucault's ideas French genealogy governmentality HF pt historians History of Sexuality HS pt human sciences individual institutions intellectual interesting interview intro lectures limits Madness and Civilization Marxist MC ch means method Michel Foucault moral Nietzsche nineteenth century notion Order of Things organisation particular phenomenology philosophy political power-knowledge prisons problems produced psychiatry published Raymond Roussel scientific Sheridan Smith social body specific structuralist structures theory thought tion translation truth words writing
References to this book
Masculinities and Management in Agricultural Organizations Worldwide Barbara Pini Limited preview - 2008 |