Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History of Sexuality. But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind these difficult individual studies, thus losing sight of the broad social vision and political aims that unified them.Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each...
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2010-11-07
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Jag hade höga förväntningar inför denna min första läsning av denna bok eftersom texter i denna Reader nästan är oftare citerade än hans monografier i historiska och statsvetenskapliga avhandlingar. Förmodligen handlar det om just "citerbarhet". Jag rekommenderar den intresserade läsaren att läsa monografierna före denna.
