Power
“Power” by Michel Foucault is the third and final volume of The New Press’s Essential Works of Foucault series, published in 2000. This edition, comprising 484 pages, presents Foucault’s insights into political analysis, focusing on key areas such as medicine, psychiatry, the penal system, and sexuality. The book draws connections to his earlier works, including “The Birth of the Clinic” and “Discipline and Punish,” while exploring the themes that have shaped Western political culture.
Readers will find a collection of previously unpublished lectures, later writings, interviews, and letters that reflect Foucault’s revolutionary approach to the politics of personal conduct and freedom. This volume not only expands on his philosophical inquiries but also sheds light on Foucault’s own political activism, offering a comprehensive view of his contributions to modern philosophy. The book is presented in English and is designed for those interested in 20th-century French philosophy and the collected works of Foucault.
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Power, the third and final volume of The New Press’s Essential Works of Foucault series, draws together Foucault’s contributions to what he saw as the still-underdeveloped practice of political analysis. It covers the domains Foucault helped to make part of the core agenda of Western political culture–medicine, psychiatry, the penal system, sexuality–illuminating and expanding on the themes of The Birth of the Clinic, Discipline and Punish, and the first volume of The History of Sexuality.
Power includes previously unpublished lectures, later writings highlighting Foucault’s revolutionary analysis of the politics of personal conduct and freedom, interviews, and letters that illuminate Foucault’s own political activism.
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