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Abnormal: Lectures at the College de France, 1974-1975
Michel Foucault
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Description for Abnormal: Lectures at the College de France, 1974-1975
Paperback. Michel Foucault remains the essential philosopher of the modern world Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJPL; HPCF; HPS; JMA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 210 x 32. Weight in Grams: 494.
Three decades after his death, Michel Foucault remains one of the towering intellectual figures of the last half-century. His works on sexuality, madness, the prison, and medicine are enduring classics. From 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the famous College de France. These seminal events, attended by thousands, created the benchmarks for contemporary social enquiry. The lectures comprising Abnormal begin by examining the role of psychiatry in modern criminal justice, and its method of categorising individuals who resemble their crime before they commit it. Building on the themes of societal self-defence developed in ... Read more
Three decades after his death, Michel Foucault remains one of the towering intellectual figures of the last half-century. His works on sexuality, madness, the prison, and medicine are enduring classics. From 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the famous College de France. These seminal events, attended by thousands, created the benchmarks for contemporary social enquiry. The lectures comprising Abnormal begin by examining the role of psychiatry in modern criminal justice, and its method of categorising individuals who resemble their crime before they commit it. Building on the themes of societal self-defence developed in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
494g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784786397
SKU
V9781784786397
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About Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault was one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of the twentieth century, fundamentally challenging our understandings of power and human society. He is the author of such classic works as Discipline and Punish, The History of Sexuality and The Order of Things.
Reviews for Abnormal: Lectures at the College de France, 1974-1975
'Abnormal make[s] a compelling case that practices of confinement, medico-legal judgement, and sexual normalization have been constituted within struggles for scientific power and control.' Notre Dame Philosophical Review 'The volume allows us to observe Foucault in the laboratory, at the threshold of a major re-orientation...indispensable reading for anybody interested in the history of medicine, psychiatry, sexuality, or the fluctuations of ... Read more