The Lives of Michel Foucault - Hardcover

Macey, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679430741 ISBN 13: 9780679430742

Publisher: Pantheon, 1994

Synopsis

Studies the life of the controversial twentieth-century French philosopher, including his influence on historians, critics, and novelists and his closely guarded private life. 12,500 first printing.

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: Pantheon
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0679430741
• ISBN 13: 9780679430742
• Binding: Hardcover