Michel Foucault: 40 books

Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge—are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and the way we think. The Archaeology of Knowledge begins at the level of...

In this remarkable book Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, calls us to look critically at specific historical events in order to uncover new layers of significance. In doing so, he challenges our assumptions not only about history, but also about the nature of language...

Politics, Philosophy, Culture contains a rich selection of interviews and other writings by the late Michel Foucault. Drawing upon his revolutionary concept of power as well as his critique of the institutions that organize social life, Foucault discusses literature, music, and the power of art while...

¿Qué relación tenía Foucault con la literatura? Se sabe que era un lector apasionado y erudito, que la biblioteca de su madre le reveló a los clásicos franceses y grecolatinos, y que su admiración por Faulkner lo llevó a hacer un viaje por tierras faulknerianas. Más allá de estas notas biográficas,...

¿De dónde viene ese impulso que nos lleva a buscar la verdad dentro de nosotros mismos, a conocernos y verbalizar ese conocimiento ante otros? Esta práctica de desciframiento, de bucear en los propios pensamientos y sentimientos para someterlos a una interpretación ilimitada, que Foucault llama...

La prigione rappresenta un luogo che in Foucault è sempre stato al centro dell'attenzione, sia nei suoi corsi accademici al Collège de France, sia nella elaborazione della sua griglia analitica della disciplina, sia nel celebre testo Sorvegliare e punire, sia infine nella sua pratica militante a...

From 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the world-famous College de France. Attended by thousands, these were seminal events in the world of French letters. Picador is proud to be publishing the lectures in thirteen volumes. The lectures comprising Abnormal begin by examining...

Por Laura Fraga de Almeida Sampaio, tradutora do livro A aula inaugural, que Foucault pronunciou ao assumir a cátedra vacante no Collège de France pela morte de Hyppolite, pode ser considerada um texto de ligação entre suas obras, datadas dos anos 60, como História da loucura, As palavras e as...

Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.

Michel Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek vision of sexual pleasure. He skillfully explores the whole corpus of moral reflection among philosophers (Plutarch, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius,...

With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designated female at birth. A pious girl in a Catholic orphanage, a bewildered adolescent enchanted by the...

Abordar la sexualidad como experiencia históricamente singular requiere desentrañar los saberes que a ella se refieren , bucear en los sistemas de poder que regulan su práctica y, sobre todo, comprender las formas según las cuales los individuos se conciben y se declaran como sujetos de esa sexualidad....

Después de la publicación del primer tomo de la Historia de la sexualidad -dice Michel Foucault- "recentré todo mi estudio en la genealogía del hombre de deseo, desde la Antigüedad clásica hasta los primeros siglos del cristianismo. Seguí una distribución cronológica simple: un primer...

Abordar la sexualidad como experiencia históricamente singular requiere desentrañar los saberes que a ella se refieren, bucear en los sistemas de poder que regulan su práctica y, sobre todo, comprender las formas según las cuales los individuos se conciben y se declaran como sujetos de esa sexualidad....