Autor: Michel Foucault

These thirteen lectures on the 'punitive society, ’ delivered at the Collège de France in the first three months of 1973, examine the way in which the relations between justice and truth that govern …

“The working hypothesis is this:  it is true that sexuality as experience is obviously not independent of codes and systems of prohibitions, but it needs to be recalled straightaway that these c …

Theories of Democracy builds on Robert Dahl’s observation that there is no single theory of democracy; only theories. Beyond the broad commitment to rule by the majority, democracy involves a set of …

Three decades after his death, Michel Foucault remains one of the towering intellectual figures of the last half-century. His works on sexuality, madness, the prison, and medicine are enduring classi …

Es ist eine Sensation und »ein postumes Wunder« (L’Express): Dreieinhalb Jahrzehnte nach dem Tod des Autors erscheint der vierte und letzte Band von Sexualität und Wahrheit – Michel Foucaults großang …

Die Überwindung von autoritären Formen der Kindererziehung und monogamen, eheähnlichen Zweierbeziehungen war immer wieder integraler Bestandteil utopischer Gesellschaftsentwürfe auf Seiten der politi …

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The first English translation of one of the most famous and controversial works in the humanities and social sciences published in the last fifty years A key publicity title for 2006 that should be r …

The first English translation of one of the most famous and controversial works in the humanities and social sciences published in the last fifty years A key publicity title for 2006 that should be r …

Politics, Philosophy, Culture contains a rich selection of interviews and other writings by the late Michel Foucault. Drawing upon his revolutionary concept of power as well as his critique of the in …

Politics, Philosophy, Culture contains a rich selection of interviews and other writings by the late Michel Foucault. Drawing upon his revolutionary concept of power as well as his critique of the in …

In France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which also included Sartre, d …

In France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which also included Sartre, d …

In this remarkable book Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, calls us to look critically at specific historical events in order to uncover new layers of significance …

In this remarkable book Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, calls us to look critically at specific historical events in order to uncover new layers of significance …

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. …

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. …

When one defines 'order’ as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He d …

When one defines 'order’ as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He d …

Inédito durante casi treinta y cinco años, Las confesiones de la carne es el último y esperadísimo volumen de la Historia de la sexualidad, y también el que articula el entero proyecto foucaultiano. …

Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently remained almost unknown. These lectures-which focus on the role …

’Imaginative, illuminating and innovative’ The New York Times Book Review The grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western socie …

’A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that "in the beginning" sexual activity was guilt-free and delicious, being repressed and blighted only by the g …

’No brief survey can do justice to the richness, complexity and detail of Foucault’s discussion’ New York Review of Books The second volume of Michel Foucault’s pioneering analysis of the changing na …

’Bristles with provocative insights into the tangled liaisons of sex and self’ Times Higher Education In the third volume of his acclaimed examination of sexuality in modern Western society, Foucault …

’Who since Weber, or perhaps even Hobbes, has done as much to show why power is such a profound, elusive and treacherous presence throughout our experience?’ The Times Higher Education The third and …

’A fabulous journey through thirty years of political and intellectual ferment … will reorient our reading of Foucault’s major works’ Didier Eribon The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offers the …

’Foucault leaves no reader untouched or unchanged’ Edward Said Aesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault’s courses, articles and interviews, focuses on the philosoph …

In 1980, Michel Foucault began a vast project of research on the relationship between subjectivity and truth, an examination of conscience, confession, and truth-telling that would become a crucial f …

“What characterizes the act of justice is not resort to a court and to judges; it is not the intervention of magistrates (even if they had to be simple mediators or arbitrators).  What character …

In 1971, at a time of enormous political and social change, two of the world’s leading intellectuals, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, were invited by the Dutch philosopher Fons Elders to debate the …

Invitado por la Escuela de Criminología de la Universidad Católica de Lovaina, en 1981 Michel Foucault dicta las seis clases del curso 'Obrar mal, decir la verdad. Función de la confesión en la justi …

¿Qué relación tenía Foucault con la literatura? Se sabe que era un lector apasionado y erudito, que la biblioteca de su madre le reveló a los clásicos franceses y grecolatinos, y que su admiración po …

¿De dónde viene ese impulso que nos lleva a buscar la verdad dentro de nosotros mismos, a conocernos y verbalizar ese conocimiento ante otros? Esta práctica de desciframiento, de bucear en los propio …

Durante años hemos leído, como si fueran la transcripción fiel de su palabra, las conocidas conferencias pronunciadas por Michel Foucault en 1983 en la Universidad de California en Berkeley. Pero se …

¿Cómo gobernar a los hombres? Esta pregunta fundamental se instala, nos dice Foucault, a partir del siglo XVI, y no ha dejado de plantearse desde entonces en las sociedades occidentales, marcando el …

Inédito durante casi treinta y cinco años, Las confesiones de la carne es el último y esperadísimo volumen de la Historia de la sexualidad, y también el que articula el entero proyecto foucaultiano. …

Clásico entre los clásicos modernos, este ensayo construye una historia de la razón a partir de la historia de la locura, buscando en ambas las constantes que definen su entorno cultural. Este hecho, …

Foucault analiza, en este segundo volumen, desde El sobrino de Rameau al perfil trágico de Antonin Artaud, pasando por Nietzsche y Nerval. Toda una historia de la locura se dibuja y socava los presup …

Sabemos que el proyecto de una Historia de la sexualidad ocupó a Michel Foucault desde mediados de los años setenta hasta su muerte. Pero ya en los sesenta había dedicado dos cursos completos, uno en …

Abordar la sexualidad como experiencia históricamente singular requiere desentrañar los saberes que a ella se refieren, bucear en los sistemas de poder que regulan su práctica y, sobre todo, comprend …

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from Amnesty International and Oxfam to Greenpeace and Save the Children are now key players in global politics. This accessible and informative textbook provide …

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from Amnesty International and Oxfam to Greenpeace and Save the Children are now key players in global politics. This accessible and informative textbook provide …

Estas cinco conferencias, dictadas por Michel Foucault en la Universidad Católica de Río de Janeiro en 1973, desarrollan las tesis básicas a partir de las cuales construiría más adelante una de sus o …

The final major work by one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century In the fourth and final volume of his far-reaching and influential study of human sexuality, Foucault turns his a …

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Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality—the first volume of which was published in 1976—exerts a vast influence across the humanities and social sciences. However, Foucault’s interest in the histo …

In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization, Fouca …

Because of their range, brilliance, and singularity, the ideas of the philosopher-critic-historian Michel Foucault have gained extraordinary currency throughout the Western intellectual community. Th …

Die hier vereinten Texte der führenden Köpfe des französischen Poststrukturalismus machen mit einer bis heute ungewohnten Herangehensweise an das schwer zu fassende OEuvre Friedrich Nietzsches bekann …

¿Hay un Foucault que no conozcamos todavía, o no lo suficiente? Los cursos en el Collège de France, impartidos entre 1970 y 1984, focalizaron la atención de lectores y especialistas en el último Fouc …

Venez découvrir Surveiller et Punir, l”ouvrage de Michel Foucault, grâce à une analyse philosophique de référence. Écrite par un spécialiste universitaire, cette fiche de lecture est recommandée par …

Venez découvrir notre analyse de la pensée de Michel Foucault grâce à une étude de référence.Écrite par un spécialiste universitaire, cet ouvrage est recommandé par de nombreux enseignants de philoso …

Venez découvrir Du contrat social, l”ouvrage de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, grâce à une analyse philosophique de référence. Écrite par un spécialiste universitaire, cette fiche de lecture est recommandée …

A Verdade e as Formas Jurídicas foi o título das conferências proferidas por Michel Foucault no Brasil – entre 21 e 25 de maio de 1973, organizadas pelo Departamento de Letras da PUC-Rio – que deram …

O cuidado de si é o foco desta obra tardia de Michel Foucault organizada a partir de conferências de 1982 em Toronto, no Canadá. Nela, o filósofo persegue diferentes formas de busca de uma verdade so …

Realizar a arqueologia do domínio da desrazão e narrar, de forma crítica, as mudanças de estatuto dos loucos na sociedade desde a Idade Média, para explicitar como operam as técnicas de exclusão faze …

Por Laura Fraga de Almeida Sampaio, tradutora do livro A aula inaugural, que Foucault pronunciou ao assumir a cátedra vacante no Collège de France pela morte de Hyppolite, pode ser considerada um tex …

„Ce relaţie există între sănătatea mentală şi dezordinea creatoare? Cât de precară, de discutabilă, de condiţionată istoric şi cultural este normalitatea noastră? Cărţile mari devin mai actuale cu tr …

Was ist Philosophie? Und welche Rolle spielt sie in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft? Zwischen Juli und Oktober 1966, einige Monate nachdem er durch das Erscheinen von Die Ordnung der Dinge schlagartig zum …

This book makes available, for the first time in English, lectures and interviews that Foucault gave in Japan in 1978, reconstructing their context, and isolating the question of their singular relev …

This book makes available, for the first time in English, lectures and interviews that Foucault gave in Japan in 1978, reconstructing their context, and isolating the question of their singular relev …

What does it mean to write 'This is not a pipe’ across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? René Magritte’s famous canvas provides the starting point for a delightful homage by French philosopher an …

Death and the Labyrinth is unique, being Foucault”s only work on literature. For Foucault this was 'by far the book I wrote most easily and with the greatest pleasure’. Here, Foucault explores theor …

¿Qué es el hombre? Durante siglos, se lo pensó como una criatura divina o un ser natural, y su verdad estaba más allá de él: en el Dios que lo había creado o en la naturaleza de la que había surgido. …

This book argues that terrorism in the modern world has occurred in four 'waves’ of forty years each. It offers evidence-based explanations of terrorism, national identity, and political legitimacy b …

This book argues that terrorism in the modern world has occurred in four 'waves’ of forty years each. It offers evidence-based explanations of terrorism, national identity, and political legitimacy b …

Ce este filosofia și care este rolul ei astăzi? În perioada iulie-octombrie 1966, Michel Foucault, într-un manuscris scris cu foarte multă grijă, dar pe care nu îl va publica, oferă răspunsul său la …

Esta seleção de textos sobre loucura, linguagem e literatura, inédita em português, busca fazer jus à centralidade desses temas no pensamento de Foucault. Figura-limite dos mecanismos de controle e c …

Newly published lectures by Foucault on critique, Enlightenment, and the care of the self. On May 27, 1978, Michel Foucault gave a lecture to the French Society of Philosophy where he redefined his e …

Now in paperback, this collection of Foucault’s lectures traces the historical formation and contemporary significance of the hermeneutics of the self.Just before the summer of 1982, French philosoph …

Newly published lectures by Foucault on madness, literature, and structuralism. Perceiving an enigmatic relationship between madness, language, and literature, French philosopher Michel Foucault deve …