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1	The History of Sexuality: An Introduction more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history. see all copies from £6.50! new only from £8.08!
2	Discipline and Punishment: The Birth of the Prison more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist A history of the development of the science of penology in the West. Foucault, a celebrated French scholar and former professor at the College de France, examines the shift in Western attitudes towards criminal justice and punishment, tracing their shift from an emphasis upon divine justice and retribution in the Middle Ages to the faith in ... see all copies from £7.95! new only from £9.35!
3	Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist Focault interprets his writings about sexuality, politics and punishment stressing the contribution of each to the portrait of society he is compiling. see all copies from £8.42! new only from £9.56! \| first editions
4	The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist see all copies from £9.04! new only from £9.69!
5	Archeology of Knowledge more books like this by Michel Foucault, Yourdon add to wishlist Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge-are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and the way we think. The Archaeology of Knowledge begins at the level of 'things said' and moves quickly to illuminate the ... see all copies from £9.26! new only from £10.49!
6	The History of Sexuality: The Use of Pleasure more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist Analyzes the way sexuality was perceived in ancient Greece and discusses why sexual experience became a moral issue in the West. see all copies from £5.95! new only from £6.43! \| first editions
7	The Care of the Self more books like this by Michel Foucault, Robert Hurley (Translator) add to wishlist Shows a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek vision, and uncovers the pagan roots of the Christian mistrust of sexual pleasure. see all copies from £6.63! new only from £6.85!
8	This is Not a Pipe more books like this by Michel Foucault, James Harkness (Translator), Rene Magritte (Illustrator) add to wishlist What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? Rene Magritte's famous canvas provides the starting point for a delightful homage by the French philosopher-historian Michel Foucault. Much better known for his incisive and mordant explorations of power and social exclusion, Foucault here assumes a more ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £5.46! \| first editions
9	Discipline and Punish more books like this by Michel Foucault, Maggie Estep, Professor Alan Sheridan (Translator) add to wishlist A history of the development of the science of penology in the West. Foucault, a celebrated French scholar and former professor at the College de France, examines the shift in Western attitudes towards criminal justice and punishment, tracing their shift from an emphasis upon divine justice and retribution in the Middle Ages to the faith in ... see all copies from £6.15! new only from £15.26! \| first editions
10	Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist The distinguished French psychologist and philosopher Michel Foucault seeks to answer the question of madness and how to define it. see all copies from £6.47! new only from £6.47! \| first editions
11 view cover	History of Madness more books like this by Michel Foucault, Jean Khalfa (Editor), Jonathan Murphy (Translator) add to wishlist When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et deraison - Histoire de la folie a l'age classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time an abridged English edition was published in 1967 as "Madness and Civilization", Michel Foucault had shaken the intellectual world. This ... see all copies from £15.33! new only from £15.33!
12 view cover	Herculine Barbin more books like this by Michel Foucault, Richard McDougall (Translator), Herculine Barbin add to wishlist see all copies from £5.61! new only from £6.05! \| first editions
13 view cover	Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College de France 1977-1978 more books like this by Michel Foucault, Michel Senellart (Editor), Francois Ewald (Editor) add to wishlist Marking a major development in Foucault's thinking, this book takes as its starting point the notion of "biopower," studying the foundations of this new technology of power over populations. Distrinct from punitive disciplinary systems, the mechanisms of power are here finely entwined with the technologies of security. In this volume, though, ... see all copies from £8.10! new only from £8.49!
14 view cover	The Foucault Reader more books like this by Michel Foucault, Paul Rabinow (Editor) add to wishlist Selections of the noted philosopher's work from each of the disciplines that he has influenced - ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. see all copies from £8.52! new only from £10.70!
15 view cover	Archaeology of Knowledge more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist 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, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. One of the great intellectual heroes of the twentieth century, Foucault was a man whose passion and reason were at the ... see all copies from £8.14! new only from £9.74! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that could be mapped. In this book, the author charts a dramatic transformation of medical knowledge. His book sheds new light on the origins of our current ... see all copies from £8.41! new only from £9.35!
17 view cover	The Order of Things more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist 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 dips into literature, art, economics and even biology in The Order of Things, possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the ... see all copies from £6.58! new only from £19.94!
18 view cover	The Birth of the Clinic more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist 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 doing so, he challenges our assumptions not only about history, but also about the nature of language and reason, even of truth. By analysing ... see all copies from £8.73! new only from £9.92!
19 view cover	Language, Counter-Memory, Practice more books like this by Michael Foucalt, Michel Foucault, Donald F Bouchard (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from £8.57! new only from £14.05! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College De France, 1978-79 more books like this by Michel Foucault, Michel Senellart (Editor), Francois Ewald (Editor) add to wishlist this liberal governmentality. This involves describing the political rationality within which the specific problems of life and population were posed: "Studying liberalism as the general framework of biopolitics." What are the specific features of the liberal art of government as they were outlined in the Eighteenth century? What crisis of ... see all copies from £14.55! new only from £14.55!
21 view cover	Fearless Speech more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist This volume gathers together a series of lectures given by Foucault on "Parrhesia", the Greek notion of fearless speech. This "Parrhesia" decribes the speech of someone who has the moral qualities to speck the truth, even if it defies convention or arouses danger. see all copies from £53.40!
22	Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist A history of the development of the science of penology in the West. Foucault, a celebrated French scholar and former professor at the College de France, examines the shift in Western attitudes towards criminal justice and punishment, tracing their shift from an emphasis upon divine justice and retribution in the Middle Ages to the faith in ... see all copies from £4.42! new only from £8.65! \| first editions
23 view cover	Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist 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 dips into literature, art, economics and even biology in The Order of Things , possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the ... see all copies from £9.63! new only from £9.63! \| first editions
24 view cover	Madness & Civilization more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist 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. His influence dominates contemporary thinking. Madness and Civilization is Foucault's first book, and his finest accomplishment. His other books expand on themes established here: ... see all copies from £5.98! new only from £9.87! \| first editions
25 view cover	The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the College de France 1981-1982 more books like this by Michel Foucault, Frederic Gross (Editor), Francois Ewald (Editor) add to wishlist The third volume of Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France, THE HERMENEUTICS OF THE SUBJECT explores the concept of the self and its development from antiquity to the modern period. Delivered in 1980-1981, these lectures constitute both Foucault's research for and his working out of many themes in his later works, especially THE CARE ... see all copies from £12.75! new only from £12.75!

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