Power / Michel Foucault ; edited by James D. Faubion ; translated by Robert Hurley and others.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984

Contributor:

• Faubion, James D., 1957-
• Hurley, Robert.

Series:

• Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984. English. Selections ; Dits et écrits. v. 3.
• Essential works of Foucault, 1954-1984 ; v. 3

Standardized Title:

• Selections. English. 2000

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Power (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

xliii, 484 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New Press, [2000]

Summary:

Containing Foucault's important later writings, "Power" highlights the domains the philosopher helped to make part of the core agenda of Western political culture: medicine, prisons, psychiatry, and sexuality.

Contents:

• Truth and Juridical Forms 1
• The Politics of Health in the Eighteenth Century 90
• Preface to Anti-Oedipus 106
• Truth and Power 111
• The Birth of Social Medicine 134
• Lives of Infamous Men 157
• About the Concept of the "Dangerous Individual" in Nineteenth-century Legal Psychiatry 176
• Governmentality 201
• Questions of Method 223
• Interview with Michel Foucault 239
• "Omnes et Singulatim": Toward a Critique of Political Reason 298
• The Subject and Power 326
• Space, Knowledge, and Power 349
• The Risks of Security 365
• What Is Called "Punishing"? 382
• Interview with Actes 394
• The Political Technology of Individuals 403
• Pompidou's Two Deaths 418
• Summoned to Court 423
• Letter to Certain Leaders of the Left 426
• The Proper Use of Criminals 429
• Lemon and Milk 435
• Open Letter to Mehdi Bazargan 439
• For an Ethic of Discomfort 443
• Useless to Revolt? 449
• So Is It Important to Think? 454
• Against Replacement Penalties 459
• To Punish Is the Most Difficult Thing There Is 462
• The Moral and Social Experience of the Poles Can No Longer Be Obliterated 465
• Confronting Governments: Human Rights 474.

Notes:

• Originally published in 1994 by Editions Gallimard, Paris, as Dits et Ecrits, 1954-1984, this 2000 edition contains new translations, compilation and introduction.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

156584257X

OCLC:

45157734