Power - (Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984 (Paperback)) by Michel Foucault (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Power", the third and final volume of the Foucault series, draws together Foucault's contributions to what he saw as the still-underdeveloped practice of political analysis. Includes previously unpublished lectures, later writings, interviews, and letters.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Part of the definitive collection of Michel Foucault's articles, interviews, and seminars, this volume lays out the philosopher's influential thinking on the machinations of power in society</strong><br /><br /><strong>"A rare opportunity to see how a great and original mind produces its work as well as itself at the same time. . . . Foucault's work . . . leaves no reader untouched or unchanged." --Edward Said, <em>The New York Times Book Review</em></strong><br /><br /><em>Power</em> draws together Michel Foucault's contributions to what he saw as the still-underdeveloped practice of political analysis. It covers the domains Foucault helped to make part of the core agenda of Western political culture--medicine, psychiatry, the penal system, sexuality--illuminating and expanding on the themes of <em>The Birth of the Clinic</em>, <em>Discipline and Punish</em>, and the first volume of <em>The History of Sexuality</em>.</p> <p><em>Power</em> includes previously unpublished lectures, later writings highlighting Foucault's revolutionary analysis of the politics of personal conduct and freedom, interviews, and letters that illuminate Foucault's own political activism.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A rare opportunity to see how a great and original mind produces its work as well as itself at the same time. . . . Leaves no reader untouched or unchanged. --Edward Said, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>Ignore those who dismiss [Foucault] without having bothered to read him: You must change your life. --<i>Talk</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. He held a chair in the history of systems of thought at the Collège de France and lectured at universities throughout the world. The New Press has published his books <i>Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology</i>; <i>Ethics</i>; <i>Power</i>; <i>The Essential Foucault</i>; and <i>The Chomsky-Foucault Debate</i> (with Noam Chomsky). Foucault's other books include <i>Madness and Civilization</i>, <i>Discipline and Punish</i>, <i>The Order of Things</i>, and <i>The History of Sexuality</i>. <p/>James D. Faubion is a professor of anthropology at Rice University. He is the author of <i>The Shadows and Lights of Waco </i>and <i>Modern Greek Lessons</i> and the editor of Michel Foucault's <i>Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology</i> and <i>Power</i>, both available from The New Press.<br>
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