The Cambridge companion to Foucault / edited by Gary Gutting.
Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidati...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
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1994.
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| Series: | Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Series.
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| Summary: | Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Michel Foucault, one of the most important of contemporary French thinkers, exerted a profound influence on philosophy, history, and social theory. Foucault attempted to reveal the historical contingency of ideas that present themselves as necessary truths. He carried out this project in a series of original and strikingly controversial studies on the origins of modern medical and social scientific disciplines. These studies have raised fundamental philosophical questions about the nature of knowledge and its relation to power structures that have become major topics of discussion throughout the humanities and social sciences. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 360 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-352) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521403324 9780521403320 0521408873 9780521408875 9781139002936 1139002937 |