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Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the College de France 1973-1974
Foucault, Michel, Davidson, Arnold I. I.
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Description for Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the College de France 1973-1974
Hardcover. Editor(s): Davidson, Arnold I. Translator(s): Burchell, Graham. Series: Michel Foucault, Lectures at the College de France. Num Pages: 407 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HPCF3; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 628.
In this new addition to the Collège de France Lecture Series Michel Foucault explores the birth of psychiatry, examining Western society's division of 'mad' and 'sane' and how medicine and law influenced these attitudes. This seminal new work by a leading thinker of the modern age opens new vistas within historical and philosophical study.
In this new addition to the Collège de France Lecture Series Michel Foucault explores the birth of psychiatry, examining Western society's division of 'mad' and 'sane' and how medicine and law influenced these attitudes. This seminal new work by a leading thinker of the modern age opens new vistas within historical and philosophical study.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Series
Michel Foucault, Lectures at the College de France
Number of Pages
383
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403969224
SKU
V9781403969224
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About Foucault, Michel, Davidson, Arnold I. I.
Author Michel Foucault: Michel Foucault, acknowledged as the pre-eminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines.
Reviews for Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the College de France 1973-1974
Praise for Michel Foucault: "[Foucault] must be reckoned with by humanists, social scientists, and political activists." - The New York Times Book Review "Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are...[His work carries] out, in the noblest way, the promiscuous aim of true culture." - The Nation