The Lives of Michel Foucault - Softcover

Macey, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679757929 ISBN 13: 9780679757924

Publisher: Vintage Books, 1995

Synopsis

The most comprehensive study of the controversial French thinker--and of his place in the history of philosophy. As public as Foucault was in his militant campaigns on behalf of prisoners, dissidents, and homosexuals, his private life was mysterious: he tried to destroy all documents that might offer clues to his personality.

About this title

About the Author:

David Macey is a historian, translator, and the author of Lacan in Context, The Lives of Michel Foucault, and Frantz Fanon: A Biography. He is the translator of more than 20 works.

From the Inside Flap:

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, informed as it is by the complex issues arising from his writings.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679757929
• ISBN 13: 9780679757924
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 624