Foucault's New Domains

This major collection brings Foucault's later work into sharp focus and illustrates some of the ways in which it is informing developments in the social sciences. Concise, clear and wide-ranging it provides an essential accessory to the understanding one of the key thinkers in the twentieth century.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction, Mike Gane, Terry Johnson; Chapter 2, Michel Foucault, Colin Gordon; Chapter 3 Question, ethos, event, Colin Gordon; Chapter 4 Michel Foucault (1926-84), Pasquale Pasquino, Chloe Chard; Chapter 5 A political genealogy of political economy, Denis Meuret, Graham Burchell; Chapter 6 Governing economic life, Peter Miller, Nikolas Rose; Chapter 7, Jacques Donzelot, Graham Burchell; Chapter 8 Expertise and the state, Terry Johnson; Chapter 9 Personality as a vocation, Ian Hunter; Chapter 10 Archaeologizing genealogy, Phil Bevis, Michèle Cohen, Gavin Kendall;

About the author

Gane, Mike; Johnson, Terry

Summary

This major collection brings Foucault's later work into sharp focus and illustrates some of the ways in which it is informing developments in the social sciences.

Product details

• Assisted by: Mike Gane (Editor), Gane Mike (Editor), Terry Johnson (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.1993
• EAN: 9780415086615
• ISBN: 978-0-415-08661-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Weight: 430 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Philosophy, Society & culture: general, Society and culture: general, Biography: philosophy and social sciences