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Philosophie: anthologie
Il est aujourd'hui deux manières de mesurer l'oeuvre de Michel Foucault : soit cerner par des colloques l'actualité de la pensée de Foucault ; soit en souligner l'inactualité. C'est-à-dire son appartenance désormais à la grande tradition philosophique occidentale.L'ambition de ce volume est à la fois simple et immense : inscrire l'oeuvre de Michel Foucault dans le corpus philosophique au même titre et sur un pied d'égale importance que ses voisins de catalogue - Rousseau ou Platon, Montesquieu ou Hobbes, Aristote ou Kierkegaard, Marx ou Nietzsche, Leibniz ou Kant.Trois grandes parties organisent cette anthologie : anthropologie et langage, régimes de pouvoir er régimes de vérité ; gouvernement de soi et des autres. Restituant, par la problématique philosophique, les étapes d'un parcours singulier, elles en soulignent l'originalité foncière à partir de l'écart qu'il creuse d'avec la tradition.
944 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
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About the author
Michel Foucault
764 books6,502 followersPaul-Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationships between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels. His thought has influenced academics, especially those working in communication studies, anthropology, psychology, sociology, criminology, cultural studies, literary theory, feminism, Marxism and critical theory.
Born in Poitiers, France, into an upper-middle-class family, Foucault was educated at the Lycée Henri-IV, at the École Normale Supérieure, where he developed an interest in philosophy and came under the influence of his tutors Jean Hyppolite and Louis Althusser, and at the University of Paris (Sorbonne), where he earned degrees in philosophy and psychology. After several years as a cultural diplomat abroad, he returned to France and published his first major book, The History of Madness (1961). After obtaining work between 1960 and 1966 at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, he produced The Birth of the Clinic (1963) and The Order of Things (1966), publications that displayed his increasing involvement with structuralism, from which he later distanced himself. These first three histories exemplified a historiographical technique Foucault was developing called "archaeology".
From 1966 to 1968, Foucault lectured at the University of Tunis before returning to France, where he became head of the philosophy department at the new experimental university of Paris VIII. Foucault subsequently published The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969). In 1970, Foucault was admitted to the Collège de France, a membership he retained until his death. He also became active in several left-wing groups involved in campaigns against racism and human rights abuses and for penal reform. Foucault later published Discipline and Punish (1975) and The History of Sexuality (1976), in which he developed archaeological and genealogical methods that emphasized the role that power plays in society.
Foucault died in Paris from complications of HIV/AIDS; he became the first public figure in France to die from complications of the disease. His partner Daniel Defert founded the AIDES charity in his memory.
Born in Poitiers, France, into an upper-middle-class family, Foucault was educated at the Lycée Henri-IV, at the École Normale Supérieure, where he developed an interest in philosophy and came under the influence of his tutors Jean Hyppolite and Louis Althusser, and at the University of Paris (Sorbonne), where he earned degrees in philosophy and psychology. After several years as a cultural diplomat abroad, he returned to France and published his first major book, The History of Madness (1961). After obtaining work between 1960 and 1966 at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, he produced The Birth of the Clinic (1963) and The Order of Things (1966), publications that displayed his increasing involvement with structuralism, from which he later distanced himself. These first three histories exemplified a historiographical technique Foucault was developing called "archaeology".
From 1966 to 1968, Foucault lectured at the University of Tunis before returning to France, where he became head of the philosophy department at the new experimental university of Paris VIII. Foucault subsequently published The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969). In 1970, Foucault was admitted to the Collège de France, a membership he retained until his death. He also became active in several left-wing groups involved in campaigns against racism and human rights abuses and for penal reform. Foucault later published Discipline and Punish (1975) and The History of Sexuality (1976), in which he developed archaeological and genealogical methods that emphasized the role that power plays in society.
Foucault died in Paris from complications of HIV/AIDS; he became the first public figure in France to die from complications of the disease. His partner Daniel Defert founded the AIDES charity in his memory.
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November 22, 2017
This philosophy made me think about the world in new ways.
November 26, 2010
Une très bonne introduction aux écrits de Foucault. Les notes préliminaires, un chapitre pour chaque période de la vie intellectuelle de l'historien/philosophe, expliquent, d'une plume superbe bien qu'un peu ampoulée, les grandes idées de sa philosophie. Les textes sont très bien choisis et la continuité entre des textes provenant d'écrits différents (thèse, conférences, livres) est surprenante. Il aurait été intéressant de voir ces idées reliées et mises en contraste avec celles d'autres penseurs de l'époque.
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