Title: Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth (Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Vol. 1)
Publisher: New Pr
Publication Date: 1997
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1565843525
ISBN 13: 9781565843523
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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Michel Foucault is generally considered one of the most brilliant and influential philosophers of the twentieth century, yet much of his writing has remained unpublished and/or unavailable in English. It is only recently that the French publisher Gallimard issued Dis et Ecrits, the first complete collection of everything Foucault published outside of his monographs. Ethics, the first of three volumes in the collection, provides a lucid and accessible overview of Foucault's work. Included in the first section of this volume are his groundbreaking analyses of penal institutions, psychiatry, "biopolitics," and the modern subject. A second section contains interviews, along with Foucault's key writings on ethics. Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award.

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Foucault s work . . . leaves no reader untouched or unchanged. Edward Said
What shines through in these pieces . . . is [Foucault s] remarkable liveliness of response, the extravagance of his curiosity, the originality and assurance of his formulations. . . To read this book is to remember as with the Kennedy assassination or the Challenger explosion where you were when you heard it for the first time. Boston Book Review
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"Foucault's work . . . leaves no reader untouched or unchanged." --Edward Said

"What shines through in these pieces . . . is [Foucault's] remarkable liveliness of response, the extravagance of his curiosity, the originality and assurance of his formulations. . . To read this book is to remember--as with the Kennedy assassination or the Challenger explosion--where you were when you heard it for the first time." --Boston Book Review

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