Michel Foucault
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (509 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674572866 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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. For specialists and where interest warrants.- Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley P.L., Cal.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. Only the barest outline of his childhood and adolescence (during wartime Paris) is given, and even most of what we are told of his later life seems to take a backseat to the publication histories of his books and his impressions of his contemporary thinkers and colleagues. From Library Journal Michel Foucault (1926-84), whose agile linkage of contemporary literature and French philosophy with social history has provided us with seminal works on the
At the time of his death in 1984, at the age of fifty-eight, Michel Foucault was widely regarded as one of the most powerful minds of this century. The nature and merits of his accomplishments remain tangled in controversy. A few months after the May 1968 student revolt, with Gaullism apparently shaken, he emerged as an ultra-leftist and a fellow traveler of Maoists. It is the story of a man and his time.. As a journalist well acquainted with Foucault for years before his death, Eribon was particularly well placed to conduct the dozens of interviews which are the cornerstone of this book. Yet during this same period, Eribon shows, he was quietly and adroitly campaigning for a chair in the College de France--the very pinnacle of the French academic system. Eribon has methodically retraced the footsteps of his peripatetic subject, from France to Sweden to Poland to Germany to Tunisia to Brazil to Japan to the United States. The result is a concise, crisply readable, meticulously documented narrative that debunks the
"AN EXCELLENT AND INSIGHTFUL BIOGRAPHY OF THE FRENCH PHILOSOPHER" according to Steven H Propp. Didier Eribon is an editor at ‘Le Nouvel Observateur’ as well as an author. He wrote in the Preface to this 1989 book, “No doubt the real reason that some object to a biography of Foucault is their feeling that discussion of homosexuality would be controversial… Obviously, this bo. "Just the facts, ma'am" according to A Customer. As the two other biographies of Foucault (David Macey's and James Miller's flame thrower of a biography) are no longer in print, this objective and fair biography will suffice.Eribon concerns his work primarily with Foucault's academic activities (a proverbial who's who of twentieth century French intelle. Magnificent biography, not only of Foucault, but of an epoch in French thought and society Nikolay Nikolov This biography is an important supplement to anyone who is interested in Foucault's thought; it serves to gently connect his evolving theoretical and political frameworks with changes in his personal life. It captures such a turbulent time in French society and it provides the reader with the opportunity