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Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide (Introducing Series)
Michel Foucault's work was described at his death as 'the most important event of thought in our century'. As a philosopher, historian and political activist he certainly left behind an enduring and influential body of work, but is this acclaim justified? Foucault places his work in its turbulent philosophical and political context, and critically explores his mission to e...more
Paperback, 176 pages
Published
August 15th 2005
by Totem Books
(first published July 20th 1993)
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What do you get when you distill a thinker and his life into a short illustrated volume? An "introduction" to that thinker that is sometimes a bumpy ride. That is the case with this book on Foucault. While the author does a fairly good job explaining Foucault in his philosophical, political, and even personal contexts, the attempts to explain his theory leaves something to be desired.
As is likely in such a short book, the author is only able to give a glimpse of the complex ...more
As is likely in such a short book, the author is only able to give a glimpse of the complex ...more
Adequate material for bullshitting in theory discussion for a passing grade, just make sure you're not arguing against a Marxist and or feminist. The book is also surprisingly dismissive of Foucault in comparison to the rest of the Introduction series (*cough* Nietzsche). To be fair, as an architect, Foucault at least brought the concept of discourse in the realm of art and architecture after it got screwed up by Le Corbusier and the bunch of Modernists. Your choice of philosophers to quote (as ...more
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Recommends it for:
Those who think philosophy is too boring or too obtuse to be fun -OR- hardcore philosophy dorks.
Shelves:
po-mo-craziness,
debauched-intellectualism
An odd little punk rock collage-comic of a philosophy book:
This was an accidental find for me. I was looking up some "serious" philosophy for a discussion with a friend, and the bright colors and goofy cover struck me as... unusual, to say the least.
In the long run, it was definitely worth my time; in the way of truly intelligent things, it managed to be a lot more informative and complex than I initially expected. Not only did it give a clear and concise overvie...more
This was an accidental find for me. I was looking up some "serious" philosophy for a discussion with a friend, and the bright colors and goofy cover struck me as... unusual, to say the least.
In the long run, it was definitely worth my time; in the way of truly intelligent things, it managed to be a lot more informative and complex than I initially expected. Not only did it give a clear and concise overvie...more
I'm not exactly sure why I keep picking up Foucault stuff, but for some reason I think I should try to understand him better. I'm not a big graphic novel guy, but I enjoyed this weird little book, which apparently is part of a series of graphic novels about big thinkers/philosophers. It combines snippets about Foucault's life, books, and philosophy, and the drawings are actually pretty helpful in shining a light on some pretty complicated ideas and theories.
This was good when I read it before reading any Foucault, and just as good to read after reading most of his important works to brush up and put them into chronological order in my mind. Most of this series is pretty great like that. Going to hang onto them all for my son to read one day.
Meh.
Interesting approach with the cartoons and graphic-novel storytelling style, but I feel like a lot of the real ideas were watered-down and glossed over, rather than using the medium to its advantage. Maybe it's just the abstract and near-impenetrable material itself that's the problem, rather than the book and its methods of conveying the material.
Interesting approach with the cartoons and graphic-novel storytelling style, but I feel like a lot of the real ideas were watered-down and glossed over, rather than using the medium to its advantage. Maybe it's just the abstract and near-impenetrable material itself that's the problem, rather than the book and its methods of conveying the material.
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A good introduction to him, but there probably could of been more said about the ideas and less about him.
"Foucault fucked a young man who was working for the police to pay for his university education."
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well he sure is clever
This was my toilet reading for about a month: I read it only when I was in the toilet. Like most of the "Introducing..." series, the book leaves you with more questions than answers. Which isn't so bad, really, coz then you have more of an incentive to pick up the primary texts themselves. And it's sometimes helpful to get a more casual intro before taking up a difficult author. I learned a few facts about Foucault that I did't know about before. Also, I enjoyed the humor in a few of t...more
the tongue-in cheek illustrations with the dense foucauldian ideas were like sugar with bitter medicine.
a good introduction. the ideas were the perfect balance of information and contextualization.
a good introduction. the ideas were the perfect balance of information and contextualization.
While some of the things which give context for Foucault's thinking, I found this book to be frustrating and not useful in elucidating his ideas.
Barry
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http://the-wounding-pen.blogspot.com/201...
Not quite as unreadable as Horrock's Introducing Baudrillard, but by no means is this the sort of accessible and introductory book that something with a title of "Introducing...." should be. Like the author's book on Baudrillard, the only worthwhile parts where those on the subject himself; Horrock failed to "introduce" Foucault's ideas in a way that makes any sense to someone who hasn't read Foucault. (With Baudrillard, I actually had read that author, and still found Horr...more
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