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Society Must Be Defended by Michel Foucault
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
In 'Society Must Be Defended' Michel Foucault, one of the twentieth century's most radical thinkers, offers a devastating critique of the systems of power and control inherent in civilization. He reveals how war is the foundation of all power relations: not fought on battlefields, but through the intimi ...Show more
Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-76 by Michel Foucault
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Society Must Be Defended is taken from a series of lectures given by Foucault at the College de France in 1975-76. Using war to analyse power relations, he contended that politics is ultimately a continuation of battlefield violence, and that ingrained ideas of sovereignty and individual rights are atte ...Show more
The Birth of the Clinic by Michel Foucault
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Routledge Classics
In this remarkable book Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, calls us to look critically at specific historical events in order to uncover new layers of significance. In doing so, he challenges our assumptions not only about history, but also about the nature of languag ...Show more
The Foucault Reader by Foucault, Michel
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Foucault Reader is the ideal introduction to one the most stimulating and influential writers of the past century. It includes detailed excerpts from all his richly textured historical studies - including Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality - as well as many of his best interviews. ...Show more
The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge by Michel Foucault
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
We talk about sex more and more, but are we more liberated? The first part of Michel Foucault's landmark account of our evolving attitudes in the west shows how the nineteenth century, far from suppressing sexuality, led to an explosion of discussion about sex as a separate sphere of life for study and ...Show more
The History of Sexuality 2 - The Use of Pleasure by Michel Foucault
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Michel Foucault's landmark account explores our evolving attitudes to sex, and shows how are making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase in pleasure.
The History of Sexuality 3 - The Care of the Self (Penguin Modern Classics) by Michel Foucault
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Michel Foucault's landmark account explores our evolving attitudes to sex, and shows how are making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase in pleasure.
The History of Sexuality: 4: Confessions of the Flesh by Michel Foucault
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Category: New Hardbacks
Foucault's History of Sexuality changed the way we think about power, selfhood and sexuality. In this fourth and final volume, he turns his attention to early Christianity, exploring how ancient ideas of pleasure were modified into the Christian notion of the 'flesh' - a transformation that would define ...Show more
The History of Sexuality: 4: Confessions of the Flesh by Michel Foucault
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The final, previously unpublished volume of one of the twentieth century's seminal works Foucault's History of Sexuality changed the way we think about power, selfhood and sexuality. In this fourth and final volume, he turns his attention to early Christianity, exploring how ancient ideas of pleasure we ...Show more
The History of Sexuality Volume 1 by Michel Foucault
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Michel Foucault's The Will to Knowledgeis the first part of his influential trilogy of books on the history of sexuality. He argues that the recent explosion of discussion about sex in the West means that, far from being liberated, we are in the process of making a science of sexuality that is devoted t ...Show more
The History of Sexuality v.1: The Will to Knowledge by Michel Foucault
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: History of Sexuality
Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic and political forces that have shaped our attitudes to sex. Foucault describes how we are in the process of making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase of pleasure.
The History of Sexuality v.2: The Use of Pleasure by Michel Foucault
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: History of Sexuality
Offers an account of the emergence of Christianity from the Ancient World. Foucault describes the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex and exercise and diet), the permitted ways of courting young boys, and the economists' ideas about the role of women.