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Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
$32.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Aesthetics offers a focused study on the philosophy, literature and art which have informed Foucault's particular engagement with ethics and power, including brilliant commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, Roussel and Boulez.
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works vol. 2 by Michel Foucault
$32.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Volume 2 in the ESSENTIAL WORKS OF FOUCAULT series and originally published by Allen Lane in 1999, a collection of articles, interviews and lectures on the subject of aesthetics, written by the twentieth century French philosopher, Michel Foucault and translated into English.
Archaeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault
$33.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics
In France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which also included Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. One of the great intellectual heroes of the twentieth century, Foucault was a man ...Show more
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
$40.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
$32.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book Review The grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed? In his revolutionary work on control and power relations in our pub ...Show more
Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
$32.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ethics is taken from the highly influential series of courses Foucault taught at the College de France from 1970 to 1982. This volume also includes a selection of engaging and unusually candid interviews, as well as excerpts from Foucault's key writing on ethics.
History of Madness by Michel Foucault
$71.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
When it was first published in France in 1961 as "Folie et Deraison: Histoire de la Folie a l'age Classique", few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time an abridged English edition was published in 1967 as "Madness and Civilization", Michel Foucault h ...Show more
Lectures on the Will to Know by Michel Foucault
$29.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Lectures on the Will to Know reminds us that Michel Foucault's work only ever had one object: truth. Here, he builds on his earlier work, Discipline and Punish, to explore the relationship between tragedy, conflict, and truth-telling. He also explores the different forms of truth-telling, and their rela ...Show more
Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
$32.99 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization, Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will change the way in which you think about society. Evo ...Show more
Power by Foucault, Michel
$32.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This book covers the topics Foucault helped make the core agenda of Western political culture - medicine, prisons, psychiatry, government and sexuality - emphasising Foucault's practical concern with discrimination, coercion and exclusion in human society.
Society Must Be Defended by Michel Foucault
$35.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
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
$32.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | 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