Society Must Be Defended - (Michel Foucault Lectures at the Collège de France) by Michel Foucault (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>An examination of the relation between war and politics, by one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers</b> <p/>From 1971 until 1984 at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures ranging freely and conversationally over the range of his research. In <i>Society Must Be Defended</i>, Foucault deals with the emergence in the early seventeenth century of a new understanding of war as the permanent basis of all institutions of power, a hidden presence within society that could be deciphered by an historical analysis. Tracing this development, Foucault outlines the genealogy of power and knowledge that had become his dominant concern.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"[Foucault] must be reckoned with by humanists, social scientists, and political activists." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are. . . [He] is carrying out, in the noblest way, the promiscuous aim of true culture." --<i>The Nation</i> <p/>"[Foucault] has an alert and sensitive mind which can ignore the familiar surfaces of established intellectual codes and ask new questions. . ..[He] gives dramatic quality to the movement of culture." --<i>The New York Review of Books</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Michel Foucault</b>, acknowledged as the preeminent philosopher of France in the '70s and '80s, had enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines. <p/><b>David Macey</b> has translated twenty books from the French and is the author of <i>The Lives of Michel Foucault </i>and<i> Frantz Fanon</i> (Picador). He lives in Leeds, England.</p>
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