Author: Gutting, Gary ; editor:
Title: The Cambridge Companion to Foucault
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (2005). 2nd edition. orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, xix,465 pp, PAPERBACK.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents : Foucault’s mapping of history / Thomas Flynn -- Foucault and the history of madness / Gary Gutting -- The death of man, or, Exhaustion of the cogito? / translated by Catherine Porter ; Georges Canguilhem -- Power/Knowledge / Joseph Rouse -- Ethics as ascetics : Foucault, the history of ethics, and ancient thought / Arnold Davidson -- Michel Foucault’s ethical imagination / James Bernauer and Michael Mahon -- The analytic of finitude and the history of subjectivity / Beatrice Han-Pile --Foucault’s encounter with Heidegger and Nietzsche / Hans Sluga -- Foucault and Habermas / David Ingram -- Foucault’s relation to phenomenology / Todd May -- Against interiority : Foucault’s struggle with psychoanalysis -- Joel Whitebook -- Foucault’s modernism / Gerald Bruns -- Queering Foucault and the subject of feminism / Jana Sawicki. ["For Michel Foucault, philosophy was a way of questioning the allegedly necessary truths that underpin the practices and institutions of modern society. He carried this out in a series of deeply original and strikingly controversial studies on the origins of modern medical and social scientific disciplines. These studies have raised fundamental questions about the nature of human knowledge and its relation to power structures, and have become major topics of discussion throughout the humanities and social sciences...." - Publisher's description].

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