The foucault reader

R$ 157,90

Sinopse

Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But of his many books, not one offers a satisfactory introduction to the entire complex body of his work. The Foucault Reader was commissioned precisely to serve that purpose.The Reader contains selections from each area of Foucault's work as well as a wealth of previously unpublished writings, including important material written especially for this volume, the preface to the long-awaited second volume of The History of Sexuality, and interviews with Foucault himself, in the course of which he discussed his philosophy at first hand and with unprecedented candor.This philosophy comprises an astonishing intellectual enterprise: a minute and ongoing investigation of the nature of power in society. Foucault's analyses of this power as it manifests itself in society, schools, hospitals, factories, homes, families, and other forms of organized society are brought together in The Foucault Reader to create an overview of this theme and of the broad social and political vision that underlies it.

Participantes

Autor: Michel Foucault

Organizador: Paul Rabinow

Autor

MICHEL FOUCAULT

Paul-Michel Foucault nasceu em Poitiers, França, em 15 de outubro de 1926. Em 1946 ingressa na École Normale Supérieure, onde conhece e mantém contato com Pierre Bourdieu, Jean-Paul Sartre, Paul Veyne, entre outros. Em 1949, Foucault conclui sua Licenciatura em Psicologia e recebe seu diploma em Estudos Superiores de Filosofia, com uma tese sobre Hegel, sob a orientação de Jean Hyppolite. Michel Foucault foi um dos mais proeminentes teóricos do século XX. Suas pesquisas lançaram os fundamentos — a partir do que chamou de arqueologia do saber, genealogia do poder e genealogia dos modos de subjetivação — de uma nova orientação para o estudo contemporâneo das ciências humanas e o pensamento sobre as relações sociais. Morreu em 25 de junho de 1984.