'A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that "in the beginning" sexual activity was guilt-free and delicious, being repressed and blighted only by the gloom of Victorianism' Spectator We talk about...

'Foucault must be reckoned with by humanists, social scientists, and political activists' The New York Times Book Review Society Must Be Defended is Michel Foucault's devastating critique of the systems of power and control inherent in...

Michel Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek vision of sexual pleasure. He skillfully explores the whole corpus of moral...

Der Wille zum Wissen, die Sorge des Subjekts um sich selbst und die Selbsttechnologien schienen bisher erst im Spätwerk Michel Foucaults zentrale Themen zu sein. Umso überraschender ist daher die Entdeckung, dass bereits die ersten...

'Bristles with provocative insights into the tangled liaisons of sex and self' Times Higher EducationIn the third volume of his acclaimed examination of sexuality in modern Western society, Foucault investigates the Golden Age of Rome to...

Unusual book

With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the...

Michel Foucault hat seiner Vorlesung am Collège de France aus den Jahren 1971 und 1972 den Titel Theorien und Institutionen der Strafe gegeben. In ihr widmet er sich zum ersten Mal Fragen der Macht und der Strafe, den Praktiken und...

'No brief survey can do justice to the richness, complexity and detail of Foucault's discussion' New York Review of BooksThe second volume of Michel Foucault's pioneering analysis of the changing nature of desire explores how sexuality...

The Foucault Reader

Why we are so fascinated with sex and sexuality—from the preeminent philosopher of the 20th century. Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social...

Michel Foucault, Philosoph und Historiker, politischer Aktivist und Professor am Collège de France, verband die Arbeit im Archiv mit unmittelbarem politischem Engagement und verstand es wie kein zweiter, die historisch-philosophische...