BOOKS by Michel Foucault

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1	The History of Sexuality: An Introduction more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history. see all copies from $2.71! new only from $5.96! \| SVS
2	Discipline and Punishment: The Birth of the Prison more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist A history of the development of the science of penology in the West. Foucault, a celebrated French scholar and former professor at the College de France, examines the shift in Western attitudes towards criminal justice and punishment, tracing their shift from an emphasis upon divine justice and retribution in the Middle Ages to the faith in ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $7.36! \| SVS
3	Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist A history of the development of the science of penology in the West. Foucault, a celebrated French scholar and former professor at the College de France, examines the shift in Western attitudes towards criminal justice and punishment, tracing their shift from an emphasis upon divine justice and retribution in the Middle Ages to the faith in ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $15.19! \| first editions
4	The Foucault Reader more books like this by Michel Foucault, Paul Rabinow (Editor) add to wishlist Selections of the noted philosopher's work from each of the disciplines that he has influenced - ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. see all copies from $4.99! new only from $10.16! \| SVS
5	This is Not a Pipe more books like this by Michel Foucault, James Harkness (Translator), Rene Magritte (Illustrator) add to wishlist What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? Rene Magritte's famous canvas provides the starting point for a delightful homage by the French philosopher-historian Michel Foucault. Much better known for his incisive and mordant explorations of power and social exclusion, Foucault here assumes a more ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.91! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist Focault interprets his writings about sexuality, politics and punishment stressing the contribution of each to the portrait of society he is compiling. see all copies from $8.94! new only from $8.94! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist see all copies from $5.91! new only from $9.56! \| SVS
8	Archeology of Knowledge more books like this by Michel Foucault, Yourdon add to wishlist Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge-are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and the way we think. The Archaeology of Knowledge begins at the level of 'things said' and moves quickly to illuminate the ... see all copies from $7.85! new only from $9.82! \| SVS
9	The History of Sexuality: The Use of Pleasure more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist Analyzes the way sexuality was perceived in ancient Greece and discusses why sexual experience became a moral issue in the West. see all copies from $5.94! new only from $8.77! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Care of the Self more books like this by Michel Foucault, Robert Hurley (Translator) add to wishlist Shows a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek vision, and uncovers the pagan roots of the Christian mistrust of sexual pleasure. see all copies from $4.87! new only from $9.00! \| SVS
11	The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that could be mapped. In this book, the author charts a dramatic transformation of medical knowledge. His book sheds new light on the origins of our current ... see all copies from $5.75! new only from $8.00! \| SVS
12 view cover	History of Madness more books like this by Michel Foucault, Jean Khalfa (Editor), Jonathan Murphy (Translator) add to wishlist When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et deraison - Histoire de la folie a l'age classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time an abridged English edition was published in 1967 as "Madness and Civilization", Michel Foucault had shaken the intellectual world. This ... see all copies from $18.14! new only from $18.14! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Discipline and Punish more books like this by Michel Foucault, Maggie Estep, Professor Alan Sheridan (Translator) add to wishlist A history of the development of the science of penology in the West. Foucault, a celebrated French scholar and former professor at the College de France, examines the shift in Western attitudes towards criminal justice and punishment, tracing their shift from an emphasis upon divine justice and retribution in the Middle Ages to the faith in ... see all copies from $6.86! new only from $19.35! \| first editions
14 view cover	Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist The distinguished French psychologist and philosopher Michel Foucault seeks to answer the question of madness and how to define it. see all copies from $3.99! new only from $8.63! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Herculine Barbin more books like this by Michel Foucault, Richard McDougall (Translator), Herculine Barbin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.54! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature more books like this by Professor Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault, John Rajchman (Introduction by) add to wishlist Two of the 20th century's most influential thinkers debate a perennial question--is there such a thing as "innate" human nature independent of experiences and external influences? see all copies from $7.00! new only from $8.01! \| SVS
17 view cover	Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College de France 1977-1978 more books like this by Michel Foucault, Michel Senellart (Editor), Francois Ewald (Editor) add to wishlist Marking a major development in Foucault's thinking, this book takes as its starting point the notion of "biopower," studying the foundations of this new technology of power over populations. Distrinct from punitive disciplinary systems, the mechanisms of power are here finely entwined with the technologies of security. In this volume, though, ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $13.12! \| SVS
18 view cover	The Order of Things more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist When one defines order as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology in The Order of Things, possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the ... see all copies from $5.71! new only from $25.00!
19 view cover	The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College De France, 1978-79 more books like this by Michel Foucault, Michel Senellart (Editor), Francois Ewald (Editor) add to wishlist this liberal governmentality. This involves describing the political rationality within which the specific problems of life and population were posed: "Studying liberalism as the general framework of biopolitics." What are the specific features of the liberal art of government as they were outlined in the Eighteenth century? What crisis of ... see all copies from $18.36! new only from $18.36! \| SVS
20 view cover	Normal & Pathological more books like this by Georges Canguilhem, Carolyn R Fawcett (Translator), Michel Foucault (Designer) add to wishlist In this work, the author analyzes the radically new way in which health and disease were defined in the early 19th century, showing that the emerging categories of the normal and the pathological were far from being objective scientific concepts. He demonstrates how the epistemological foundations of modern biology and medicine were intertwined ... see all copies from $16.75! new only from $18.85! \| SVS
21 view cover	Language, Counter-Memory, Practice more books like this by Michael Foucalt, Michel Foucault, Donald F Bouchard (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $6.75! new only from $15.54! \| first editions
22 view cover	Archaeology of Knowledge more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist In France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which also included Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. One of the great intellectual heroes of the twentieth century, Foucault was a man whose passion and reason were at the ... see all copies from $5.47! new only from $25.62! \| first editions
23 view cover	Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics more books like this by Hubert Freyfus, Hubert L Dreyfus, Michel Foucault add to wishlist In preparing this edition, Dreyfus and Rabinow added not only the interview with Foucalt - "On the Genealogy of Ethics: An Overview of Work in Progress" - but also a new chapter on the books Foucalt was working on at the time: two more planned volumes of "The History of Sexuality" and a third book, "Le Souci de soi," that was to analyze the great ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $17.92! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist When one defines "order" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology in The Order of Things , possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the ... see all copies from $19.78! new only from $19.78! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Birth of the Clinic more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist In this remarkable book Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, calls us to look critically at specific historical events in order to uncover new layers of significance. In doing so, he challenges our assumptions not only about history, but also about the nature of language and reason, even of truth. By analysing ... see all copies from $4.46! new only from $25.32!

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