Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault

Informationen zum Autor Lisa Downing is Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality and Director of the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe at the University of Exeter. Klappentext Covers Foucault's major works in depth! and offers clear explanations of his key themes of power and discourse. Zusammenfassung French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault is essential reading for students in departments of literature! history! sociology and cultural studies. This introductory book! written for students! offers in-depth critical and contextual perspectives on his work and is an ideal introduction to a famously complex! controversial and important thinker. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Life, texts, contexts; 2. Works: madness and medicine; 3. Works: the death of man; 4. Works: authors and texts; 5. Works: crime and punishment; 6. Works: the history of sexuality; 7. Critical receptions; Afterword; Guide to further reading; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Downing, Prof. Lisa Downing
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.09.2008
• EAN: 9780521682992
• ISBN: 978-0-521-68299-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 225 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature; Cambridge introduction to; Cambridge Introductions to Lit; Cambridge introduction to
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology