Starting With Foucault: An Introduction To Genealogy - Couverture souple

Prado, C. G.; Prado, C G

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0813317916 ISBN 13 : 9780813317915

Editeur : Westview Press, 1995

Synopsis

Michel Foucault had a great influence upon a wide range of scholars, but it is often difficult for beginners to find their way into the complexities of his thought. This difficulty arises from a number of historical and substantive reasons that are especially germane if the reader comes to Foucault without prior acquaintance with Continental philosophy. C. G. Prado argues in this new introduction that the time is ripe for Anglo-American philosophy, in particular, to come to terms with Foucault.In this clear, straightforward introduction to Foucault's thought, Prado focuses on Foucault's “middle” work, Discipline and Punish and the first volume of The History of Sexuality, in which Foucault most clearly comes to grips with the the historicization of truth and knowledge and the formation of subjectivity.Understanding Foucault's thought on these difficult subjects requires working through much complexity and ambiguity, and Prado's direct and accessible introduction is the ideal place to start.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

C. G. Prado is professor of philosophy at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He is the author of eight books, the most recent of which are Descartes and Foucault: A Contrastive Introduction, and The Last Choice: Preemptive Suicide in Advanced Age (Second Edition).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Westview Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813317916
• ISBN 13: 9780813317915
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
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