Lives of Michel Foucault

Name: Lives of Michel Foucault
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ISBN: 9780679757924

ISBN-10: 0679757929

ISBN-13: 9780679757924

Edition: 1994

Authors: David Macey

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When he died of an AIDS-related condition in 1984, Michel Foucault had become the most influential French philosopher since the end of World War II. His powerful studies of the creation of modern medicine, prisons, psychiatry, and other methods of classification have had a lasting impact on philosophers, historians, critics, and novelists the world over. But as public as he was in his militant campaigns on behalf of prisoners, dissidents, and homosexuals, he shrouded his personal life in mystery. In The Lives of Michel Foucault -- written with the full cooperation of Daniel Defert, Foucault's former lover -- David Macey gives the richest account to date of Foucault's life and work,…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/25/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 624
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Textual Note


Introduction: 'I, Michel Foucault ...'



Paul-Michel



The Fox, the School and the Party



Carnival in Musterlingen



North



A History of Madness



Death and the Labyrinth



Words and Things



South



Vincennes



'A Place Where Thought Is Free'



'Intolerable'



The Professor Militant



The Archives of Pain



The Use of Pleasures



Dissident



The Dance of Death Begins



The Great, Stubborn Light of Polish Freedom



An Unfinished Life


Notes


Bibliography


Other Works Consulted


Index