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Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophreniaby Felix Guattari, Gilles DeleuzeISBN 0816612250 (0-8166-1225-0)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and "a work of heretical madness" by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari set forth the following theory: Western society's innate herd instinct has allowed the government, the media, and even the principles of economics to take advantage of each person's unwillingness to be cut off from the group. What's more, those who suffer from mental disorders may not be insane, but could be individuals in the purest sense, because they are by nature isolated from society. More than twenty-five years after its original publication, Anti-Oedipus still stands as a controversial contribution to a much-needed dialogue on the nature of free thinking.More editions of Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia:
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Archaeology of Knowledgeby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394711068 (0-394-71106-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Archaeology of Knowledge'Book summary: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 service of nearly every progressive cause of his time. From law and order, to mental health, to power and knowledge, he spearheaded public awareness of the dynamics that hold us all in thrall to a few powerful ideologies and interests. Arguably his finest work, Archaeology of Knowledge is a challenging but fantastically rewarding introduction to his ideas. [via]
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A Barthes Readerby Roland Barthes, Susan SontagISBN 0374521441 (0-374-52144-1)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Barthes Reader'Book summary:A Barthes Reader gives one the image of Barthes as one of the great public teachers of our time, someone who thought out, argued for, and made available several steps in a penetrating reflection on language sign systems, texts- and what they have to tell us about the concept of being human. Susan Sontag's prefatory essay is one of her finest acts of criticism, informed by intellectual sympathy and a sure sense of the contours of the mind she is describing.[via]More editions of A Barthes Reader:
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A Barthes Readerby Susan Sontag, Roland BarthesISBN 0809028158 (0-8090-2815-8)
Hardcover, Hill and Wang
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Barthes Reader'Book summary:A Barthes Reader gives one the image of Barthes as one of the great public teachers of our time, someone who thought out, argued for, and made available several steps in a penetrating reflection on language sign systems, texts- and what they have to tell us about the concept of being human. Susan Sontag's prefatory essay is one of her finest acts of criticism, informed by intellectual sympathy and a sure sense of the contours of the mind she is describing.[via]More editions of A Barthes Reader:
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The Birth of the Clinicby Michel FoucaultISBN 0415307724 (0-415-30772-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Birth of the Clinic'Book summary: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. The scope of such an undertaking is vast, but by means of his uniquely engaging narrative style, Foucaults penetrating gaze is skilfully able to confront our own. After reading his words our perceptions are never quite the same again.
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The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perceptionby Michel FoucaultISBN 0679753346 (0-679-75334-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception'Book summary:In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that could be mapped. Disease became subject to new rules of classification. And doctors begin to describe phenomena that for centuries had remained below the threshold of the visible and expressible.
In The Birth of the Clinic the philosopher and intellectual historian who may be the true heir to Nietzsche charts this dramatic transformation of medical knowledge. As in his classic Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault shows how much what we think of as pure science owes to social and cultural attitudes -- in this case, to the climate of the French Revolution. Brilliant, provocative, and omnivorously learned, his book sheds new light on the origins of our current notions of health and sickness, life and death. [via]More editions of The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception:
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Care of the Self the History of Sexualityby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394741552 (0-394-74155-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Care of the Self the History of Sexuality'Book summary:The Care of the Self is the third and possibly final volume of Michel Foucault's widely acclaimed examination of "the experience of sexuality in Western society." Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek vision of sexual pleasure. He skillfully explores the whole corpus of moral reflection among philosophers (Plutarch, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca) and physicians of the era, and uncovers an increasing mistrust of pleasure and growing anxiety over sexual activity and its consequences. [via]
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Deconstruction: Theory and Practiceby Christopher NorrisISBN 0415280109 (0-415-28010-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deconstruction: Theory and Practice'Book summary:Since first appearing in 1982 this book has been acclaimed as by far the most readable, concise and authoritative text of its kind. While in no way oversimplifying the complexities of the subject, or understating the challenge it presents, Norris's book sets out to make deconstruction more accessible to the open-minded reader. For this revised edition the author has provided a substantial postscript which looks back over the past ten years of critical debate and seeks to correct some prevalent misunderstandings. The volume also contains an updated bibliography - among the most extensive of its kind - giving details of more than two hundred books published during that period. Some critics have dismissed deconstruction as a harmless academic game; others have denounced it as a terrorist weapon or a discourse of last-ditch nihilist unreason. As Norris demonstrates, both responses are equally wide of the mark. Focusing on Derrida's major texts, and offers a detailed commentary on his readings of Plato, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Husserl, Saussure, Levi-Strauss, J.L. Austin and others, this book brings out the extraordinary subtlety and force that have characterized his project from the outset. Norris also examines the work of those North American critics - Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller and Harold Bloom - who in their own prolonged efforts to move beyond the old' New Criticism have variously registered the impact of Derrida's thought. [via]
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Derrida for Beginnersby Jim Powell, Van HowellISBN 0863161391 (0-86316-139-1)
Softcover, Writers & Readers
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prisonby Michel Foucault, Alan SheridanISBN 0679752552 (0-679-75255-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Forget Foucaultby Jean Baudrillard, Sylvere LotringerISBN 1584350415 (1-58435-041-5)
Softcover, Semiotext
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Foucaultby J. G. Merquior, Jose Guilherme MerquiorISBN 0520060628 (0-520-06062-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Foucault Readerby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394713400 (0-394-71340-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Foucault Reader'Book summary:Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But of his many books, not one offers a satisfactory introduction to the entire complex body of his work. The Foucault Reader was commissioned precisely to serve that purpose.
The Reader contains selections from each area of Foucault's work as well as a wealth of previously unpublished writings, including important material written especially for this volume, the preface to the long-awaited second volume of The History of Sexuality, and interviews with Foucault himself, in the course of which he discussed his philosophy at first hand and with unprecedented candor.
This philosophy comprises an astonishing intellectual enterprise: a minute and ongoing investigation of the nature of power in society. Foucault's analyses of this power as it manifests itself in society, schools, hospitals, factories, homes, families, and other forms of organized society are brought together in The Foucault Reader to create an overview of this theme and of the broad social and political vision that underlies it. [via]More editions of The Foucault Reader:
The Foucault Readerby Paul Rabinow, Michel FoucaultISBN 0394529049 (0-394-52904-9)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Gender Troubleby Judith ButlerISBN 1428815627 (1-4288-1562-7)
Softcover, Academic Internet Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gender Trouble'Book summary:Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes for your textbook with optional online practice tests. Only Cram101 Outlines are Textbook Specific. Cram101 is NOT the Textbook. Accompanys: 9780415924993 [via]
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identityby Judith ButlerISBN 0415389550 (0-415-38955-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gender Trouble: Feminism And the Subversion of Identity'Book summary:In a new introduction to the 10th-anniversary edition of Gender Trouble--among the two or three most influential books (and by far the most popular) in the field of gender studies--Judith Butler explains the complicated critical response to her groundbreaking arguments and the ways her ideas have evolved as a result. Nevertheless, she has resisted the urge to revise what has become a feminist classic (as well as an elegant defense of drag, given Butler's emphasis on the performative nature of gender). The book was produced, according to Butler, "as part of the cultural life of a collective struggle that has had, and will continue to have, some success in increasing the possibilities for a livable life for those who live, or try to live, on the sexual margins." An attack on the essentialism of French feminist theory and its basis in structuralist anthropology, Gender Trouble expands to address the cultural prejudices at play in genetic studies of sex determination, as well as the uses of gender parody, and also provides a critical genealogy of the naturalization of sex. A primer in gender studies--and sexy reading for college cafés. --Regina Marler [via]
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The History of Sexualityby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394417755 (0-394-41775-5)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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The History of Sexuality: An Introductionby Michel FoucaultISBN 0679724699 (0-679-72469-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother ..: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Centuryby Blandine Kriegel, Michel FoucaultISBN 0394493109 (0-394-49310-9)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother ...: A Case of Parricide in the Nineteenth Centuryby Michel FoucaultISBN 0803268572 (0-8032-6857-2)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Identity, Culture and the Postmodern Worldby Madan Sarup, Tasneem RajaISBN 0820318671 (0-8203-1867-1)
Softcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World'Book summary:This introductory guide surveys the work of a range of influential contemporary social theorists including Lacan, Baudrillard, Foucault, Said, Harvey and Haug and explains their analyses of current topics such as consumer identity and commodity aesthetics; post-colonial criticism; identity and narrative; and the general condition of postmodernity. [via]
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Image, Music, Textby Stephen Heath, Roland BarthesISBN 0006348807 (0-00-634880-7)
Hardcover, Fotana
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Image, Music, Text'Book summary:Roland Barthes, the French critic and semiotician, was one of the most important critics and essayists of this century. His work continues to influence contemporary literary theory and cultural studies. Image-Music-Text collects Barthes's best writings on photography and the cinema, as well as fascinating articles on the relationship between images and sound. Two of Barthes's most important essays, "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative" and "The Death of the Author" are also included in this fine anthology, an excellent introduction to his thought. [via]
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Image, Music, Textby Roland BarthesISBN 0374521360 (0-374-52136-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Image, Music, Text'Book summary:Roland Barthes, the French critic and semiotician, was one of the most important critics and essayists of this century. His work continues to influence contemporary literary theory and cultural studies. Image-Music-Text collects Barthes's best writings on photography and the cinema, as well as fascinating articles on the relationship between images and sound. Two of Barthes's most important essays, "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative" and "The Death of the Author" are also included in this fine anthology, an excellent introduction to his thought. [via]
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An Introductory Guide to Post-Structuralism and Postmodernismby Madan SarupISBN 0820315311 (0-8203-1531-1)
Softcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Introductory Guide to Post-Structuralism and Postmodernism'Book summary:Madan Sarup has now revised his accessible and popular introduction to post-structuralist and postmodern theory. A new introductory section discusses the meaning of such concepts as modernity, postmodernity, modernization, modernism, and postmodernism. A section on feminist criticism of Lacan and Foucault has been added, together with a new chapter on French feminist theory focusing on the work of Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva.[via]The chapter on postmodernism has been significantly expanded to include a discussion of Lyotard's language games and his use of the category "sublime." This chapter ends with a discussion of the relationship between feminism and postmodernism. A further chapter has been added on the work of Jean Baudrillard, a cult figure on the current postmodernist scene, whose ideas have attained a wide currency. The chapter includes a new section on postmodern cultural practices as revealed in architecture, TV, video, and film. Suggestions for further reading are now listed at the end of each chapter and are upgraded and annotated.
In tracing the impact of post-structuralist thought not only on literary criticism but on such disciplines as philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis, the social sciences, and art, this book will be essential reading for those who want a clear and incisive introduction to the theories that continue to have widespread influence.
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A Kristeva Readerby Julia KristevaISBN 0231063253 (0-231-06325-3)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Kristeva Readerby Toril MoiISBN 0631149317 (0-631-14931-7)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kristeva Reader'Book summary:Julia Kristeva is one of Europe's most brilliant and original theorists, widely acclaimed for her work in such diverse areas as linguistics, psychoanalysis, literary and political theory. The Kristeva Reader is a fully-comprehensive, easily accessible introduction to her work in English, containing a wide range of essays from all phases of Kristeva's career. The essays have been carefully selected as representative of the three main areas of her writing - semiotics, psychoanalysis and political theory - and each is prefaced by a clear, instructive introduction. [via]
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Language, Counter Memory, Practiceby Michel Foucault, Donald F. BouchardISBN 0801492041 (0-8014-9204-1)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviewsby Michel FoucaultISBN 0801409799 (0-8014-0979-9)
Hardcover, Cornell University Press
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Limited Inc.by Jacques DerridaISBN 0810107880 (0-8101-0788-0)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reasonby Michel FoucaultISBN 067972110X (0-679-72110-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Madness and Civilizationby M. FOUCAULTISBN 0415253853 (0-415-25385-3)
Softcover, Taylor and Francis
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madness and Civilization'Book summary: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. Madness and Civilization, Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will change the way in which you think about society. Evoking shock, pity and fascination, it might also make you question the way you think about yourself. [via]
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Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneuticsby Hubert L. Dreyfus, Paul Rabinow, Michel FoucaultISBN 0226163121 (0-226-16312-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Neveryonaby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 055324177X (0-553-24177-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Neveryona, orby Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0819562718 (0-8195-6271-8)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Neveryona, or'Book summary:In his four-volume series Return to Neveryeon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. Wesleyan University Press has reissued the long-unavailable Neveryeonvolumes in trade paperback.
The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Neveryeon's four volumes chronicle a long-ago land on civilization's brink, perhaps in Asia or Africa, or even on the Mediterranean. Taken slave in childhood, Gorgik gains his freedom, leads a slave revolt, and becomes a minister of state, finally abolishing slavery. Ironically, however, he is sexually aroused by the iron slave collars of servitude. Does this contaminate his mission -- or intensify it? Presumably elaborated from an ancient text of unknown geographical origin, the stories are sunk in translators' and commentators' introductions and appendices, forming a richly comic frame. [via] -
Of Grammatologyby Jacques Derrida, Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakISBN 0801858305 (0-8018-5830-5)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciencesby Michel FoucaultISBN 0415267374 (0-415-26737-4)
Softcover, Brunner-Routledge
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Positionsby Christopher Norris, Jacques Derrida, Alan BassISBN 0826459927 (0-8264-5992-7)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Positions'Book summary:This new edition of a key, accessible text to the work of the most influential psychoanalytic and literary critic alive today includes a new introduction by Christopher Norris setting these key early interviews in the context of the full trajectory of Derrida's thought.[via] -
Positionsby Jacques DerridaISBN 0226143317 (0-226-14331-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Positions'Book summary:Positions is a collection of three interviews with Jacques Derrida that illuminate and make more accessible the complex concepts and terms treated extensively in such works as Writing and Difference and Dissemination. Derrida takes positions on his detractors, his supporters, and the two major preoccupations of French intellectual life, Marxism and psychoanalysis.[via]
The interviews included in this volume offer a multifaceted view of Derrida. "Implications: Interview with Henri Ronse" contains a succinct statement of principles. "Seminology and Grammatology: Interview with Julia Kristeva" provides important clarifications of the role played by linguistics in Derrida's work. "Positions: Interview with Jean-Louis Houdebine and Guy Scarpetta" is a wide-ranging discussion that touches on many of the polemics that Derrida's work as provoked.
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The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledgeby Jean-Francois LyotardISBN 0816611734 (0-8166-1173-4)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge'Book summary:Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed. This book extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status of science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information is controlled in the Western world. [via]
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Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977by Colin Gordon, Michel FoucaultISBN 0394513576 (0-394-51357-6)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977'Book summary:Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History of Sexuality. But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind these difficult individual studies, thus losing sight of the broad social vision and political aims that unified them.
Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent -- and terrifying -- portrait of society that he was patiently compiling.
For, as Foucault shows, what he was always describing was the nature of power in society; not the conventional treatment of power that concentrates on powerful individuals and repressive institutions, but the much more pervasive and insidious mechanisms by which power "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives"
Foucault's investigations of prisons, schools, barracks, hospitals, factories, cities, lodgings, families, and other organized forms of social life are each a segment of one of the most astonishing intellectual enterprises of all time -- and, as this book proves, one which possesses profound implications for understanding the social control of our bodies and our minds. [via]More editions of Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977:
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Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977by Michel FoucaultISBN 039473954X (0-394-73954-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977'Book summary:Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History of Sexuality. But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind these difficult individual studies, thus losing sight of the broad social vision and political aims that unified them.
Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent -- and terrifying -- portrait of society that he was patiently compiling.
For, as Foucault shows, what he was always describing was the nature of power in society; not the conventional treatment of power that concentrates on powerful individuals and repressive institutions, but the much more pervasive and insidious mechanisms by which power "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives"
Foucault's investigations of prisons, schools, barracks, hospitals, factories, cities, lodgings, families, and other organized forms of social life are each a segment of one of the most astonishing intellectual enterprises of all time -- and, as this book proves, one which possesses profound implications for understanding the social control of our bodies and our minds. [via]More editions of Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977:
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The Practice of Everyday Lifeby Michel De Certeau, Steven RendallISBN 0520236998 (0-520-23699-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Practice of Everyday Life'Book summary:In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture.[via]More editions of The Practice of Everyday Life:
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S/Zby Roland BarthesISBN 0374521670 (0-374-52167-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'S/Z'Book summary:S/Z is the linguistic distillation of Barthes's system of semiology, a science of signs and symbols, in which Balzac's novella, Sarrasine, is dissected semantically to uncover layers of hidden meaning. [via]
S/Zby Honore De Balzac, Roland BarthesISBN 0809083752 (0-8090-8375-2)
Hardcover, Hill and Wang
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Speech and Phenomena and Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signsby Jacques DerridaISBN 081010590X (0-8101-0590-X)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Structuralism and Poststructuralism for Beginnersby Donald D. PalmerISBN 0863161936 (0-86316-193-6)
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A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophreniaby Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Brian MassumiISBN 0816614024 (0-8166-1402-4)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexualityby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394751221 (0-394-75122-1)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Throughout The Uses of Pleasure Foucault analyzes an irresistible array of ancient Greek texts on eroticism as he tries to answer basic questions: How in the West did sexual experience become a moral issue? And why were other appetites of the body, such as hunger, and collective concerns, such as civic duty, not subjected to the numberless rules and regulations and judgments that have defined, if not confined, sexual behavior? [via]More editions of The Use of Pleasure: The History of Sexuality:
What Is Philosophy?by Felix Guattari, Gilles DeleuzeISBN 0231079893 (0-231-07989-3)
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Writing and Differenceby Jacques DerridaISBN 0226143295 (0-226-14329-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writing and Difference'Book summary:First published in 1967, Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The book's first half, which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes and Foucault, shows the development of Derrida's method of deconstruction. In these essays, Derrida demonstrates the traditional nature of some purportedly nontraditional currents of modern thoughtone of his main targets being the way in which "structuralism" unwittingly repeats metaphysical concepts in its use of linguistic models.[via]
The second half of the book contains some of Derrida's most compelling analyses of why and how metaphysical thinking must exclude writing from its conception of language, finally showing metaphysics to be constituted by this exclusion. These essays on Artaud, Freud, Bataille, Hegel, and Lévi-Strauss have served as introductions to Derrida's notions of writing and différencethe untranslatable formulation of a nonmetaphysical "concept" that does not exclude writingfor almost a generation of students of literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.
Writing and Difference reveals the unacknowledged program that makes thought itself possible. In analyzing the contradictions inherent in this program, Derrida foes on to develop new ways of thinking, reading, and writing,new ways based on the most complete and rigorous understanding of the old ways. Scholars and students from all disciplines will find Writing and Difference an excellent introduction to perhaps the most challenging of contemporary French thinkerschallenging because Derrida questions thought as we know it.More editions of Writing and Difference:
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Yo, Pierre Riviereby Michel FoucaultISBN 8483107309 (84-8310-730-9)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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La Condition Postmoderne: Rapport Sur Le Savoirby Jean-Francois LyotardISBN 2707302767 (2-7073-0276-7)
Hardcover, Editions De Minuit
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Condition Postmoderne: Rapport Sur Le Savoir'Book summary:La crise de l'université, l'apparition d'une nouvelle classe sociale - les cadres - l'incidence des transformations technologiques sur le savoir scientifique, la traduction de la connaissance en quantité d'information, tout cela concourre à se poser la question du statut du savoir dans les sociétés post-industrielles, autrement dit à se demander si l'informatisation ne nous conduit pas à reconsidérer certains aspects de la transformation du savoir ainsi que ses conséquences politiques, sur la société et l'État. Examinant la représentation de la société contemporaine telle qu'elle apparaît aux technocrates ou aux marxistes, l'auteur pose la question du savoir par rapport au pouvoir :" Qui décide ce qu'est savoir et qui sait ce qu'il convient de décider. " À l'âge de l'informatique, la question du savoir est plus que jamais celle du gouvernement et elle ne peut se réduire à l'alternative d'un savoir, soit " technologique ", soit " critique ". La remise en question du savoir est un problème de société qui ne peut se limiter au seul savoir scientifique, à la connaissance, ou à la valeur d'un énoncé. Pour s'interroger sur le savoir scientifique, il faut le confronter au savoir narratif dont le récit est la forme par excellence, et qui a toujours existé dans les sociétés précédentes. Mais, le savoir postmoderne n'est pas seulement l'instrument des pouvoirs : il raffine notre sensibilité aux différences et renforce notre capacité de supporter l'incommensurable. Lui-même ne trouve pas sa raison dans l'homologie des experts, mais dans la paralogie des inventeurs. [via]
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De La Grammatologieby Jacques DerridaISBN 2707300128 (2-7073-0012-8)
Hardcover, Edtions de Minuit
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Histoire De La Sexualiteby Michel FoucaultISBN 2070273822 (2-07-027382-2)
Hardcover, Gallimard
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Mille Plateauxby Felix Guattari, Gilles DeleuzeISBN 2707303070 (2-7073-0307-0)
Hardcover, Editions De Minuit
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mille Plateaux'Book summary:L'espace lisse, ou Nomos : sa différence avec l'espace strié. - Ce qui remplit l'espace lisse : le corps, sa différence avec l'organisme. - Ce qui se distribue dans cet espace : rhizome, meutes et multiplicités. - Ce qui se passe : les devenirs et les intensités. - Les coordonnées tracées : territoires, terre et déterritorialisations, Cosmos. - Les signes correspondants, le langage et la musique (les ritournelles). - Agencement des espaces-temps : machine de guerre et appareil d'État. Chaque thème est censé constituer un "plateau", c'est-à-dire une région continue d'intensités. Le raccordement des régions se fait à la fois de proche en proche et à distance, suivant des lignes de rhizome, qui concernent les éléments de l'art, de la science et de la politique. [via]
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Oublier Foucaultby Jean BaudrillardISBN 2718600608 (2-7186-0060-8)
Hardcover, Editions Galilee
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Qu'est-Ce Que La Philosophieby Felix Guattari, Gilles DeleuzeISBN 2707313866 (2-7073-1386-6)
Hardcover, Editions De Minuit
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Qu'est-Ce Que La Philosophie'Book summary:La question est paradoxale. Nul ne peut comprendre ce qu'est la philosophie qu'après l'avoir longtemps pratiquée. On aborde donc toujours de manière incertaine cette discipline. Car il s'agit bien d'une discipline à part entière, qui certes entre en résonance avec les autres disciplines, mais non pas d'une matière interdisciplinaire, comme le soulignent ici Deleuze et Guattari.
Loin des poncifs au goût du jour sur la spontanéité de l'éveil au questionnement philosophique, cet ouvrage définit la philosophie comme un travail dont la finalité est de créer des concepts. L'élucidation du sens de ce terme dont l'usage philosophique diffère absolument de son usage marketing habituel fournit à elle seule une réponse à la question posée. Si les sciences opèrent par fonction et l'art par affects, le philosophe seul conceptualise.
Un livre de grande envergure qu'il faut savoir parcourir avec patience et avec cette attention emplie d'humilité qui constitue comme la fine pointe de l'intelligence. --Paul Klein [via]
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Erste Lese-Erlebnisseby Siegfried UnseldISBN 3518067508 (3-518-06750-8)
Hardcover, Suhrkamp
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La Condicion Postmoderna/ Postmodern Conditionby Jean-Francois LyotardISBN 8437604664 (84-376-0466-4)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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