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On Foucault : a critical introduction / Alison Leigh Brown.
Van Pelt Library B2430.F724 B76 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Alison Leigh, 1959-
- Series:
- Wadsworth philosophers series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
- Foucault, Michel.
- Physical Description:
- 90 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Belmont, CA : Wadsworth, [2000]
- Summary:
- This brief text assists students in understanding Foucault's philosophy and thinking so that they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue and improve their understanding of course content. Part of the "Wadsworth Philosophers Series," (which will eventually consist of approximately 100 titles, each focusing on a single "thinker" from ancient times to the present), ON FOUCAULT is written by a philosopher deeply versed in the philosophy of this key thinker. Like other books in the series, this concise book offers sufficient insight into the thinking of a notable philosopher better enabling students to engage in the reading and to discuss the material in class and on paper.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Truth, Power, Self 1
- Major Works
- Influences
- Chapter 2 Epistemology 20
- Experience
- Power/Knowledge
- Discourse
- Functions of Discourse
- Understanding
- Criticism
- Chapter 3 The Politics of Power 39
- Power
- Bio-power
- Strategy
- Resistance
- Discipline
- Positions
- Chapter 4 The Withering Away of the Subject 57
- A Subject is Born
- A Subject Dies
- Morality
- Author-Function
- The Role of the Intellectual
- Chapter 5 Care of the Self 76
- Will to Knowledge
- Sexuality
- Recognition of our External Constitution
- Confession.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-90).
- ISBN:
- 0534576141
- OCLC:
- 43653029
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