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Foucault - The Birth of Power (Paperback)
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Foucault - The Birth of Power (Paperback)
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Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge was published in
March 1969; Discipline and Punish in February 1975. Although only
six years apart, the difference in tone is stark: the former is a
methodological treatise, the latter a call to arms. What accounts
for the radical shift in Foucault's approach? Foucault's time in
Tunisia had been a political awakening for him, and he returned to
a France much changed by the turmoil of 1968. He taught at the
experimental University of Vincennes and then moved to a
prestigious position at the College de France. He quickly became
involved in activist work concerning prisons and health issues such
as abortion rights, and in his seminars he built research teams to
conduct collaborative work, often around issues related to his
lectures and activism. Foucault: The Birth of Power makes use of a
range of archival material, including newly available documents at
the Bibliotheque nationale de France, to provide a detailed
intellectual history of Foucault as writer, researcher, lecturer
and activist. Through a careful reconstruction of Foucault's work
and preoccupations, Elden shows that, while Discipline and Punish
may be the major published output of this period, it rests on a
much wider range of concerns and projects.
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