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Power/Knowledge : Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 Paperback - 1980
by Foucault, Michel
- Used
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- Title Power/Knowledge : Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
- Author Foucault, Michel
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York
- Date 1980-11-12
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # GRP98101964
- ISBN 9780394739540 / 039473954X
- Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.29 x 5.48 x 0.78 in (21.06 x 13.92 x 1.98 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Power (Social sciences)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 79003308
- Dewey Decimal Code 303.33
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From the jacket flap
Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent -- and terrifying -- portrait of society that he was patiently compiling.
For, as Foucault shows, what he was always describing was the nature of power in society; not the conventional treatment of power that concentrates on powerful individuals and repressive institutions, but the much more pervasive and insidious mechanisms by which power "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives"
Foucault's investigations of prisons, schools, barracks, hospitals, factories, cities, lodgings, families, and other organized forms of social life are each a segment of one of the most astonishing intellectual enterprises of all time -- and, as this book proves, one which possesses profound implications for understanding the social control of our bodies and our minds.