Foucault: a Very Short Introduction

Name: Foucault: a Very Short Introduction
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ISBN: 9780192805577

ISBN-10: 0192805576

ISBN-13: 9780192805577

Edition: 2005

Authors: Gary Gutting

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From aesthetics to the penal system, and from madness and civilization to avant-garde literature, Foucault was happy to reject old models of thinking and replace them with fresh versions that are still being debated today. A major influence on Queer Theory and gender studies (he was openly gay and died of an AIDS-related illness in 1984), he also wrote on architecture, history, law, medicine, literature, politics, and of course philosophy. He even managed to write a best seller in France on a book dedicated to the history of systems of thought. Because he never succinctly stated his arguments, those trying to come to terms with Foucault's work have desperately sought introductory material…

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List price: $11.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/16/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 4.37" wide x 6.85" long x 0.31" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English




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