Foucault


Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure
The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
The Foucault Reader
The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979
Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976
Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-1978
Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975
The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1981-82
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Michel Foucault
This book first arose out of a passage in [Jorge Luis] Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all the familiar landmarks of my thought—our thought that bears the stamp of our age and our geography—breaking up all the ordered surfaces and all the planes with which we are accustomed to tame the wild profusion of existing things, and continuing long afterwards to disturb and threaten with collapse our age-old distinction between the Same and the Other. This passage quote ...more
Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

Michel Foucault
We demand that sex speak the truth [...] and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth of that truth about ourselves wich we think we possess in our immediate consciousness.
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

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