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90Alternatives to the PrisonTheory, Culture and Society 26 (6): 12-24. 2009.This paper examines the problem of alternatives to the prison in order to problematize the prison as an institution, as a form of punishment and as a system for promoting respect for the law. It argues that the mechanisms that were central to the prison during the 19th century, such as the practice of penitence as a principle of rehabilitation, the family as agent of correction, or as agent of legality, and labour as a fundamental instrument for punishment, still operate today, if in altered for…Read more
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89Michel 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one of the most brilliant and influential philosophers of the twentieth century, yet much of his writing has remained unpublished and/or unavailable in English.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 …Read more
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85The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical PerceptionVintage Books. 1973.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.
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80Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in JusticeUniversity of Chicago Press. 2014.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 of avowal, or confession, in the determination of truth and justice—provide the missing link between Foucault’s early work on madness, delinquency, and sexuality and his later explorations of subjectivity in Greek and Roman antiquity. Ranging broadly from Homer to the twentieth century, Foucault trac…Read more
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79Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984Penguin Group. 2020.'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 definitive collection of his articles, interviews and seminars from across thirty years of his extraordinary career. This first volume, Ethics, contains the summaries of Foucault's renowned courses at the Collège de France, as well as key writings and candid interviews on ethical matters: from the ro…Read more
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71Danger, Crime and Rights: A Conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan SimonTheory, Culture and Society 34 (1): 3-27. 2017.This article is a transcript of a conversation between Michel Foucault and Jonathan Simon in San Francisco in October 1983. It has never previously been published and is transcribed on the basis of a tape recording made at the time. Foucault and Simon begin with a discussion of Foucault’s 1977 lecture ‘About the Concept of the “Dangerous Individual” in 19th-Century Legal Psychiatry’, and move to a discussion of notions of danger, psychiatric expertise in the prosecution cases, crime, responsibil…Read more
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65Sécurité, territoire, population: cours au Collège de France, 1977-1978Companyédition EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil. 2004.Etude sur l'exercice du pouvoir politique et du gouvernement depuis le début de l'ère chrétienne.
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62Espacio, Saber y PoderIn The Foucault Reader, . 1984.“ S pace, K no w l edge and P o w e r ” , en tr ev i s t a r ea l i z a d a en 1982 y pub li cada en P aul R ab i no w , The Foucau l t R eade r , N ueva Y o r k, 1984. A quí se pub li ca de acue r do a l a ve r s i ón f r ancesa, t r aduc i da por P ab l o Bli t s t e i n y Tadeo L im a
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55History of MadnessRoutledge. 1961/2006.When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la Folie à l'âge 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 translation is the first English edition of the complete French texts of the first and second edition, including all prefaces and appendices, some of them unav…Read more
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49Michel Foucault: un escéptico contemporáneoIdeas y Valores. Revista Colombiana de Filosofía 58 (139): 129-144. 2009.
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47Political Spirituality as the Will for Alterity: An Interview with the Nouvel ObservateurCritical Inquiry 47 (1): 121-134. 2020.An interview with Michel Foucault in 1979 that was never published during his lifetime and was recently rediscovered in the archives. The interview, appearing for the first time in English and in its complete form, marks one of Foucault’s final public discussions of the contentious topic of the Iranian Revolution. In particular, Foucault clarifies what he means by “political spirituality” and addresses the respective relations between religion, revolution, and self-transformation.
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46Manet and the Object of PaintingTate. 2009.In this encounter between one of the twentieth century greatest philosophical minds and an artist fundamental to our understanding of the development of modern art, Michel Foucault explores Manet.s importance in the overthrow of traditional values in painting.
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42Language, counter-memory, practice: selected essays and interviewsCornell University Press. 1977.Language and the birth of "literature." A preface to transgression. Language to infinity. The father's "no." Fantasia of the library.--Counter-memory: the philosophy of difference. What is an author? Nietzsche, genealogy, history. Theatrum philosophicum.--Practice: knowledge and power. History of systems of thought. Intellectuals and power. Revolutionary action: "until now.".
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42Abnormal: lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975Picador. 2003.The second volume in an unprecedented publishing event: the complete College de France lectures of one of the most influential thinkers of the last century Michel Foucault remains among the towering intellectual figures of postmodern philosophy. His works on sexuality, madness, the prison, and medicine are classics his example continues to challenge and inspire. From 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the world-famous College de France. These lectures were seminal eve…Read more
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36The Foucault ReaderVintage. 1984.Michael Foucault's writing has shaped the teaching of half a dozen disciplines, ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But none of his books offers a satisfactory introduction to the entire complex body of his work. The Foucault Reader precisely serves that purpose. It contains selections from each area of Foucault's thought, a wealth of previously unpublished writings, and an interview with Foucault during which he discusses his philosophy with unprecedented candor.
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358 truth and powerIn A. L. Macfie (ed.), Orientalism: A Reader, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 41-44. 2019.
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35Naissance de la cliniquePresses Universitaires de France - PUF. 2015.«La recherche ici entreprise implique donc le projet délibéré d’être à la fois historique et critique, dans la mesure où il s’agit, hors de toute intention prescriptive, de déterminer les conditions de possibilité de l’expérience médicale telle que l’époque moderne l’a connue. Une fois pour toutes, ce livre n’est pas écrit pour une médecine contre une autre, ou contre la médecine pour une absence de médecine. Ici comme ailleurs, il s’agit d’une étude qui essaie de dégager dans l’épaisseur du dis…Read more
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34Experiences of madnessHistory of the Human Sciences 4 (1): 1-25. 1991.'Expériences de la folie', chapter 4 of Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique, Paris: Gallimard, 1972. The editors wish to thank Gallimard, and in particular Mme Ania Chevallier, for permission to publish this new translation
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34PowerPenguin Books, Limited (UK). 2002.Volume 3 in the ESSENTIAL WORKS OF FOUCAULT series, a collection of articles, interviews and seminars on the subject of Western political culture, written by the twentieth century French philosopher, Michel Foucault and translated into English. It includes issues such as sexuality, psychiatry, discrimination and exclusion in human society.
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29Truth and Power (1977)In Craig J. Calhoun (ed.), Contemporary Sociological Theory, Blackwell. pp. 201--208. 2007.