By Lois McNay

ISBN-10: 0745609902

ISBN-13: 9780745609904

ISBN-10: 0745609910

ISBN-13: 9780745609911

This paintings offers an creation to the paintings of Michel Foucault. It deals an evaluation of all of Foucault's paintings, together with his ultimate writings on governmentality and the self. McNay argues that the later paintings initiates an enormous shift in his highbrow issues which alters any retrospective examining of his writings as a complete. all through, McNay is worried to evaluate the normative and political implications of Foucault's social feedback. She is going past the extent of many commentators to examine the values from which Foucault's paintings springs and divulges the implicit assumptions underlying his social critique. the writer additionally offers an account and evaluate of modern literature on Foucault, together with that of Habermas and Taylor. She discusses Foucault's place within the modernity/postmodernity debate, his personal ambivalence to Enlightenment proposal and his position in fresh advancements in feminist and cultural theory.

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