Power/Knowledge
Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
$36.26
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
1 October 1988
Summary
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 diff…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780394739540 |
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| ISBN-10: | 039473954X |
| Author: | Michel Foucault |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 1988 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault was born in Poitiers, France, in 1926. He lectured in universities throughout the world; served as director at the Institut Francais in Hamburg, Germany and at the Institut de Philosophie at the Faculte des Lettres in the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France; and wrote frequently for French newspapers and reviews. At the time of his death in 1984, he held a chair at France’s most prestigious institutions, the College de France.
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