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Psychiatric Power

Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974

M. Foucault A. Davidson A. Davidson

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Palgrave
01 May 2006
In this new addition to the Collège de France Lecture Series Michel Foucault explores the birth of psychiatry, examining Western society's division of 'mad' and 'sane' and how medicine and law influenced these attitudes. This seminal new work by a leading thinker of the modern age opens new vistas within historical and philosophical study.
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Edited by:   ,
Imprint:   Palgrave
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 27mm
Weight:   666g
ISBN:   9781403969224
ISBN 10:   1403969221
Series:   Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France
Pages:   408
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Primary ,  A / AS level
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Foreword Introduction Translator's Note 7 November 1973 14 November 1973 21 November 1973 28 November 1973 5 December 1973 12 December 1973 19 December 1973 9 January 1974 16 January 1974 23 January 1974 30 January 1974 6 February 1974 Course Summary Course Context Index of Notions Index of Names Index of Places

MICHEL FOUCAULT, acknowledged as the pre-eminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines. ARNOLD I. DAVIDSON is Series Editor, and teaches Philosophy, Divinity, Comparative Literature, and History of Science at the University of Chicago, USA. He is Executive Director of the journal, Critical Inquiry and Co-editor of the anthology, Michel Foucault: Philosophie. GRAHAM BURCHELL is Translator, and has written essays on Michel Foucault and is an Editor of The Foucault Effect.

Reviews for Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974

Praise for Michel Foucault: [Foucault] must be reckoned with by humanists, social scientists, and political activists. - The New York Times Book Review Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are...[His work carries] out, in the noblest way, the promiscuous aim of true culture. - The Nation


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