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Record Nr.

UNINA9910172221903321

Autore

Smart Barry

Titolo

Michel Foucault [[electronic resource] /] / Barry Smart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2002

ISBN

1-138-14746-X

1-134-49529-3

0-203-32612-1

1-280-10957-2

0-203-40574-9

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (167 p.)

Collana

Key sociologists

Disciplina

194

301/.0944

Soggetti

Sociology - France - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-147) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Michel Foucault; Copyright Page; Contents; Editor's Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgements; Reconsidering Foucault; Introduction; Chapter 1- Major Themes and Issues; On confinement-madness, reason, and the asylum; The birth of the clinic; An archaeology of the human sciences; A theory of discourse; From archaeology to genealogy; Chapter 2- Questions of Method and Analysis; Archaeology; Archaeology and science; Genealogy; Science and critique; On intellectuals; Chapter 3- Subjects of power, objects of knowledge; Discipline and punish; Power, knowledge and the body; Power

Discipline and punishmentDiscipline; The Carceral network and the formation of the human sciences; On the subject of sexuality; Sexuality and repression; Classes of sex; Power over life: a summary; Objectification, subjectification, and the human sciences; A genealogy of the subject; The 'culture of self'; Chapter 4-The State, Resistance and Rationality; Power and the state; On government; The question of resistance; Forms of rationality; Suggestions for Further Reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

It is impossible to imagine contemporary critical theory without the work of Michel Foucault. His radical reworkings of the concepts of



power, knowledge, discourse and identity have influenced the widest possible range of theories and impacted upon disciplinary fields from literary studies to anthropology. Aimed at students approaching Foucault's texts for the first time, this volume offers:* an examination of Foucault's contexts* a guide to his key ideas* an overview of responses to his work* practical hints on 'using Foucault'* an annotated guide to his most influential w