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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255357603321

Autore

Raffnsøe Sverre

Titolo

Michel Foucault: A Research Companion / / by Sverre Raffnsøe, Morten S Thaning, Marius Gudmand-Hoyer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9781137351029

1137351020

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (513 p.)

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Philosophy - History

Philosophy, Modern

Political science

Ethics

Social sciences - Philosophy

Sociology

History of Philosophy

Early Modern Philosophy

Political Science

Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics

Social Philosophy

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

A philosophical trajectory -- Displacements and development: a familiar Foucault -- Contextuality and transversal categories: a less familiar Foucault -- Borders of madness -- A genealogy of structuralism and language -- Discipline, penitentiary, and delinquency -- Warfare as a model of power relations -- The governmentalization of the state -- The (neo)liberal art of governing -- Histories of sexualities -- The practices of the self -- Philosophy, enlightenment, diagnostics.

Sommario/riassunto

Michel Foucault continues to be hugely influential. His diagnoses challenge us to rethink crucial phenomena such as madness, discipline,



the human sciences, the state, neoliberalism, sexuality and subject formation. Based on his work in its entirety, and with special emphasis on his many recently published lecture series, this book provides an updated, comprehensive and original account of his thought. By reading Foucault as a philosopher, it offers an extensive systematic assessment and discussion of his unique conception of philosophical practice and brings a unifying trajectory in his work to light.