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Essential Works of Foucault (1954-1984)

This collection gathers pivotal writings from a renowned French thinker, extending beyond his major books. It delves into diverse genres like lectures and interviews, offering profound insights into his groundbreaking ideas. The series charts the evolution of his thought on how individuals become subjects, exploring knowledge systems and power dynamics.

Power
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology
Ethics

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  1. 1

    Ethics

    • 334 pages
    • 12 hours of reading
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    Collecting the writings and interviews of Michel Foucault outside his published monographs, this work contains Foucault's summaries of the highly influential courses he taught at the College de France from 1970 to 1982, as well as engaging and unusally candid interviews and Foucault's key writings on ethics. schovat popis

    Ethics
  2. 2

    Presents a collection of Michel Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars. This work focuses primarily upon the philosophy, literature and other works of the imagination which have informed Foucault's particular engagement with ethics and power and includes Foucault's arresting commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, and Nietzsche. schovat popis

    Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology
  3. 3

    Power

    • 528 pages
    • 19 hours of reading
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    The third and final volume of the Essential Works of Foucault series, Power brings together his writings on the issues that he helped make the core agenda of Western political culture- medicine, prisons, psychiatry, government and sexuality, in particular showing his concerns with human rights, discrimination and exclusion. It also includes articles and open letters published directly in response to the issues of the time, calling for reform in abortion, asylum and the death penalty. All the pieces here bring a new sense of Foucault's huge influence on the politics of personal freedom.

    Power