Lisa Downing (University of Exeter)

The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault is essential reading for students in departments of literature, history, sociology and cultural studies. This introductory book, written for students, offers in-depth critical and contextual perspectives on his work and is an ideal introduction to a famously complex, controversial and important thinker.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Introductions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9780521864435
• ISBN-10: 0521864437
• Artikelnr.: 23604526

Autorenporträt

Lisa Downing is Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality and Director of the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe at the University of Exeter.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Life, texts, contexts
2. Works: madness and medicine
3. Works: the death of man
4. Works: authors and texts
5. Works: crime and punishment
6. Works: the history of sexuality
7. Critical receptions
Afterword
Guide to further reading
Index.