Power/knowledge: selected interviews and other writings, 1972-1977
Foucault, Michel
Power/knowledge: selected interviews and other writings, 1972-1977 - New York: Vintage Books, 1980. - x, 270p.; hbk; 20cm.
Includes index and references
Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History of Sexuality. But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind these difficult individual studies, thus losing sight of the broad social vision and political aims that unified them.
Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent — and terrifying — portrait of society that he was patiently compiling.
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/55032/powerknowledge-by-michel-foucault/
9780394739540
Philosophy, French--20th century
Social history
History--Philosophy
Sociology
Power--Social sciences
303.33 / FOU
Power/knowledge: selected interviews and other writings, 1972-1977 - New York: Vintage Books, 1980. - x, 270p.; hbk; 20cm.
Includes index and references
Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History of Sexuality. But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind these difficult individual studies, thus losing sight of the broad social vision and political aims that unified them.
Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent — and terrifying — portrait of society that he was patiently compiling.
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/55032/powerknowledge-by-michel-foucault/
9780394739540
Philosophy, French--20th century
Social history
History--Philosophy
Sociology
Power--Social sciences
303.33 / FOU
