1. Spaces and Classes 2. A Political Consciousness 3. The Free Field 4. The Old Age of the Clinic 5. The Lesson of the Hospitals 6. Signs and Cases 7. Seeing and Knowing 8. Open Up a Few Corpses 9. The Visible Invisible 10. Crisis in Fevers
Foucault (1926-84) was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century. He was part of the ultimate intellectual generation in France
'The Birth of the Clinic repeatedly allows us to glimpse the face,
the personal and distinctive features of a philosopher-historian
whose declared aim is nevertheless to get rid of the subject and
subjectivity, to disappear in his own discourse and to leave the
way open for a formulation of the anonymous rules which govern
human knowledge and behavior.' - New York Review of Books
'Foucault has re-launched philosophy in France single-handed.' -
The Times Literary Supplement
'Michel Foucault is a very brilliant writer, he has a remarkable
angle of vision, a highly disciplined and coherent one, that
informs his work to such a high degree as to make the work sui
generis original.' - Edward W. Said
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