Michel Foucault : key concepts / edited by Dianna Taylor
- Published:
- Durham : Acumen, 2011.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 200 pages ; 22 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Taylor, Dianna
- Series:
- Contents:
- Introduction: Power, freedom and subjectivity / Dianna Taylor -- Power: Foucault's theory of power / Richard A. Lynch -- Disciplinary power / Marcelo Hoffman -- Biopower / Chloƫ Taylor -- Power/knowledge / Ellen K. Feder -- Freedom: Foucault's conception of freedom / Todd May -- Freedom and bodies / Johanna Oksala -- Freedom and spirituality / Karen Vintges -- The practice of freedom / Eduardo Mendieta -- Subjectivity: Foucault's theory and practice of subjectivity / Edward McGushin -- Subjectivity and truth / Brad Elliott Stone -- Subjectivity and power / Cressida J. Heyes -- Practices of the self / Dianna Taylor.
- Summary:
- Michel Foucault: Key Concepts explores Foucault's central ideas, such as disciplinary power, biopower, bodies, spirituality and practices of the self. Each essay focuses on a specific concept, analysing its meaning and uses across Foucault's work, highlighting its connection to other concepts, and emphasizing its potential applications. Together, the chapters provide the main coordinates to map Foucault's work. --Book Jacket.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 1844652351 (pbk.)
9781844652358 (pbk.)
1844652343 (hbk.)
9781844652341 (hbk.) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index.
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