Michel Foucault and Power Today: International Multidisciplinary Studies in the History of the Present - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0739111817 ISBN 13: 9780739111819

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2005

Synopsis

Foucault's thought finds innumerable applications across the social sciences, from studies in the social aspects of the medical practices and criminal sociology to juridical and economic sciences. Owing to their philosophical ramifications, his ideas have also impacted the spheres of literary studies, ethics, political thought, and "critical ontology." Few thinkers have left such an influence across such a diverse range of studies. Contributors attempt to pay homage to that diversity by presenting a multidisciplinary series of analyses dedicated to the question of "power today." Drawn from a number of papers presented at an international conference entitled "Michel Foucault and social Control: conducted at Maison de la culture Cote-des-Neiges in Montreal on May 8-10, 2004 to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Foucault's death, the essays that comprise this volume address the issue at both a theoretical level and as it pertains to specific fields of practice. In addition to paying tribute to Foucault's achievements and situating his thought within the French and larger European context from which it emerged, these essays also re-evaluate the relevance of Foucault's ideas for understanding contemporary conditions. This book is suited for a broad academic audience in the humanities and Social Sciences, especially philosophy, sociology, and cultural studies.

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Review:

Michel Foucault's work was an invitation to think differently and this volume's contributors respond superbly to it in their analyses of how power needs to be thought about today. Foucault would have learned much from it. Readers will take away renewed appreciation for Foucault's legacy and for its timeliness in understanding the twenty-first century's dangerous challenges to each person's care of the self.--James Bernauer, Boston College

...this selection of papers touches on the importance of Foucault's work for Politics, Law, Psychiatry, Health Care and The French Context....there are some good individual pieces here.--Political Studies Review

Synopsis:

Few thinkers have left such an influence across such a diverse range of studies as Michel Foucault has. This book pays homage to that diversity by presenting a multidisciplinary series of analyses dedicated to the question of power today.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0739111817
• ISBN 13: 9780739111819
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 188
• Editor: Gabbard David A., Beaulieu Alain