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Foucault (Paperback)
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Foucault (Paperback)
Series: Fontana Modern Masters
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Loot Price R226
Discovery Miles 2 260
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By attempting a highly original merger of philosophy and history,
Michel Foucault set out to revitalize philosophical reflection
through several provocative analyses of the Western past. At the
time of his death in June 1984, Michel Foucault had become widely
known as 'the new Sartre'. By attempting a highly original and
daring merger of philosophy and history, he had set out to
revitalize Western philosophy with bold, provocative theses on our
concepts of madness, the assumtion of science and language, our
attitudes to punishment and discipline, and our ideas about
sexuality. Finally, he presented new perspectives on the phenomenon
of power and its relationship with knowledge. J. G. Merquior's is
an uninhibited critical assessment of Foucault as 'a historian of
the present'. Encompassing all his published work and a
comprehensive array of secondary literature about Foucault, it
appraises his philosophical background and his debts to previous
thinkers such as Bachelard and Kuhn, and sketches his complex
relationship to Fre
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