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Print Email this page		Madness The Invention of an Idea Michel Foucault Paperback - $10.99 Description Detailed info Michel Foucault Discipline & Punish The Birth of the Prison Michel Foucault At the end of 2006, the United States had approximately 7.2 million people who were either incarcerated, on probation, or on parole. Our society's propensity for punishment and justice has manifested into the modern prison system, arguably... The History of Sexuality The Use of Pleasure, Volume 2 Michel Foucault In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality. Throughout The Uses of Pleasure Foucault analyzes an... Madness and Civilization A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason Michel Foucault Perhaps the French philosopher's masterpiece, which is concerned with an extraordinary question: What does it mean to be... The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language Michel Foucault Michel Foucault (1926-84), celebrated French thinker and activist who challenged people's assumptions about care of the mentally ill, gay rights, prisons, the police, and welfare. Power/Knowledge Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 Michel Foucault 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... Edited by Michel Foucault I, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century Michel Foucault To free his father and himself from his mother's tyranny, Pierre Rivière decided to kill her. On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hook and cut to death his mother, his eighteen-year-old sister, and his seven-year-old... Preface by Michel Foucault Anti-Oedipus Capitalism and Schizophrenia Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari An "introduction to the nonfascist life" (Michel Foucault, from the Preface) When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and "a work of heretical madness" by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari set...