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Foucault


Foucault

The Birth of Power
1. Aufl.

von: Stuart Elden

19,99 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 23.05.2017
ISBN/EAN: 9781509507276
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 240

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<p>Michel Foucault's <i>The Archaeology of Knowledge</i> was published in March 1969; <i>Discipline and Punish</i> in February 1975. Although only six years apart, the difference in tone is stark: the former is a methodological treatise, the latter a call to arms. What accounts for the radical shift in Foucault's approach?</p> <p>Foucault's time in Tunisia had been a political awakening for him, and he returned to a France much changed by the turmoil of 1968. He taught at the experimental University of Vincennes and then moved to a prestigious position at the Collège de France. He quickly became involved in activist work concerning prisons and health issues such as abortion rights, and in his seminars he built research teams to conduct collaborative work, often around issues related to his lectures and activism.</p> <p><i>Foucault: The Birth of Power</i> makes use of a range of archival material, including newly available documents at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, to provide a detailed intellectual history of Foucault as writer, researcher, lecturer and activist. Through a careful reconstruction of Foucault's work and preoccupations, Elden shows that, while <i>Discipline and Punish</i> may be the major published output of this period, it rests on a much wider range of concerns and projects.</p>
Contents<br /> Acknowledgements<br /> Abbreviations<br /> Introduction: Out of the 1960s<br /> 1. Measure: Greece, Nietzsche, Oedipus<br /> 2. Inquiry: Revolt, Ordeal, Proof<br /> 3. Examination: Punishment, War, Economy<br /> 4. Madness: Power, Psychiatry and the Asylum<br /> 5. Discipline: Surveillance, Punishment and the Prison<br /> 6. Illness: Medicine, Disease and Health<br /> Conclusion: Towards Foucault?s Last Decade<br /> Notes<br /> Index
<p><i>"Foucault: The Birth of Power</i> opens an illuminating window into the process of political awakening and philosophical transformation as intellectual history. Drawing on lectures, talks and unpublished as well as published material, Stuart Elden has marshalled the contents of a massive archive to substantiate this pivotal period in the development of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century."<br /> <b>Caren Kaplan, University of California, Davis</b></p> <p>"This is a brilliant prequel to Elden’s masterful book, <i>Foucault’s Last Decade</i>. Here, Elden offers a meticulous, erudite reading of the thinker’s early years at the Collège de France – a critical time in the arc of his research, which included seminars and conferences on disciplinary power, with deep political engagement and activism on behalf of prisoners. With his unmatched knowledge of Foucault, Elden unearths key intellectual moments and carefully traces Foucault’s intellectual journey to the mid-1970s, the publication of Discipline and Punish and the lectures on psychiatric power. <i>Foucault: The Birth of Power</i> is the perfect reading companion to Foucault’s “power-knowledge” period."<br /> <b>Bernard Harcourt, Columbia University<br /><br /></b>"fascinating"<b><br /><b>The Nation</b><br /></b></p>
<b>Stuart Elden</b> is Professor of Political Theory and Geography at the University of Warwick and Monash Warwick Professor in the Faculty of Arts, Monash University.

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