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Archaeology of Knowledge
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 21.95In 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 service... more...
Birth of the Clinic
Routledge 1976; US$ 48.95Towards the middle of the eighteenth century, Pomme treated and cured a hysteric by making her take ?baths, ten or twelve hours a day, for ten whole months?. At the end of this treatment for the desiccation of the nervous system and the heat that sustained it, Pomme saw ?membranous tissues like pieces of damp parchment ?peel away with some slight... more...
History of Madness
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 26.95When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la Folie à l'âge 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 translation... more...
The Order of Things
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 25.49When 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... more...
The History of Sexuality, Vol. 3
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 14.00The Care of the Self is the third and possibly final volume of Michel Foucault's widely acclaimed examination of "the experience of sexuality in Western society." Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek vision of sexual pleasure. He skillfully... more...
The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 14.00In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality. Throughout The Uses of Pleasure Foucault analyzes an irresistible array of ancient Greek texts on eroticism as he tries to answer basic questions: How in the... more...
The History of Sexuality
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 14.00The 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. more...
Discipline & Punish
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 16.95In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul. more...
The Archaeology of Knowledge
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 15.00









