How To Read Foucault

How To Read Foucault
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Publisher : Granta Books
Total Pages : 136
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ISBN-10 : 9781847086877
ISBN-13 : 184708687X
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Download or read book How To Read Foucault written by Johanna Oksala and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Foucault was a twentieth-century philosopher of extraordinary talent, a political activist, social theorist, cultural critic and creative historian. He shaped the ways we think today about such controversial issues as power, sexuality, madness and criminality. Johanna Oksala explores the conceptual tools that Foucault gave us for constructing new forms of thinking as well as for smashing old certainties. She offers a lucid account of him as a thinker whose persistent aim was to challenge the self-evidence and seeming inevitability of our current experiences, practices and institutions by showing their historical development and, therefore, contingency. Extracts are taken from the whole range of Foucault's writings - his books, essays, lectures and interviews - including the major works History of Madness,The Order of Things, Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality.


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