The Care of the Self - Softcover

Michel Foucault

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140137351 ISBN 13: 9780140137354

Publisher: Penguin, 1990

Synopsis

The third volume of Foucault's history of sexuality. A sociologist and historian of ideas, Foucault's other works include "Madness and Civilization", "The Archaeology of Knowledge", "The Birth of the Clinic" and "Discipline and Punish".

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Review:

" The Care of the Self shares with the writings on which it draws the characteristic of being carefully constructed, exquisitely reasoned and internally cogent." -- The New York Times Book Review " Foucault is a thinker from whose writing one can infer lessons for our modern lives and dilemmas." -- Boston Globe

About the Author:

One of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century and the most prominent thinker in post-war France, Foucault's work influenced disciplines as diverse as history, sociology, philosophy, sociology and literary criticism.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0140137351
• ISBN 13: 9780140137354
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 280