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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,732 ratings — published 1975
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,237 ratings — published 1976
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,794 ratings — published 1961
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,694 ratings — published 1966
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,480 ratings — published 1969
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,588 ratings — published 1984
The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,880 ratings — published 1984
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as foucault)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,563 ratings — published 1963
The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,698 ratings — published 2004
The Foucault Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,683 ratings — published 1984
Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976 (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,898 ratings — published 1976
Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,022 ratings — published 1977
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-1978 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,146 ratings — published 2004
Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975 (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.27 — 773 ratings — published 1975
The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1981-82 (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,615 ratings — published 2001
Foucault: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as foucault)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,831 ratings — published 2005
Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.12 — 574 ratings — published 1982
Confessions of the Flesh: The History of Sexuality, Volume 4 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as foucault)
avg rating 3.95 — 288 ratings — published 2018
The Government of Self and Others: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1982–1983 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.35 — 310 ratings — published 2008
This Is Not a Pipe (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as foucault)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,291 ratings — published 1968
Michel Foucault (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.09 — 415 ratings — published 1989
Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.29 — 434 ratings — published 2003
Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.20 — 703 ratings — published 1997
The Punitive Society: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1972-1973 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.46 — 200 ratings — published 1973
On the Government of the Living: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1979-1980 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.15 — 110 ratings — published 1980
The Courage of Truth: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983-1984 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.47 — 343 ratings — published 2009
Lectures on the Will to Know: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1970-1971, & Oedipal Knowledge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.23 — 245 ratings — published 2014
El orden del discurso (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as foucault)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,521 ratings — published 1970
Foucault (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,338 ratings — published 1986
Subjectivity and Truth: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1980-1981 (Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France)
by (shelved 10 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.24 — 72 ratings — published 2014
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.14 — 296 ratings — published 1998
Passion of Michel Foucault (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as foucault)
avg rating 3.98 — 374 ratings — published 1993
Fearless Speech (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.17 — 596 ratings — published 1983
The Lives of Michel Foucault (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as foucault)
avg rating 3.97 — 138 ratings — published 1993
Forget Foucault (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as foucault)
avg rating 3.70 — 635 ratings — published 1983
I, Pierre Rivière, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother...: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as foucault)
avg rating 3.76 — 935 ratings — published 1973
Saint Foucault : Towards a Gay Hagiography (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as foucault)
avg rating 3.96 — 323 ratings — published 1995
The Cambridge Companion to Foucault (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
by (shelved 7 times as foucault)
avg rating 3.71 — 85 ratings — published 1994
Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.01 — 440 ratings — published 1988
Foucault Live: Interviews, 1961-84 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.34 — 128 ratings — published 1989
Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.18 — 306 ratings — published 1977
La verdad y las formas jurídicas (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.24 — 311 ratings — published
Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.04 — 143 ratings — published 1963
Penal Theories and Institutions: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1971-1972 (Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France)
by (shelved 6 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.18 — 33 ratings — published 2015
Foucault for Beginners (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as foucault)
avg rating 3.67 — 784 ratings — published 1993
Microfísica del poder (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as foucault)
avg rating 4.22 — 541 ratings — published 1977
The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as foucault)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,066 ratings — published 1974
Mental Illness and Psychology (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as foucault)
avg rating 3.76 — 866 ratings — published 1954
Foucault and Neoliberalism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as foucault)
avg rating 3.78 — 77 ratings — published 2014
“Capitalist realism insists on treating mental health as if it were a natural fact, like weather (but, then again, weather is no longer a natural fact so much as a political-economic effect). In the 1960s and 1970s, radical theory and politics (Laing, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, etc.) coalesced around extreme mental conditions such as schizophrenia, arguing, for instance, that madness was not a natural, but a political, category. But what is needed now is a politicization of much more common disorders. Indeed, it is their very commonness which is the issue: in Britain, depression is now the condition that is most treated by the NHS. In his book The Selfish Capitalist, Oliver James has convincingly posited a correlation between rising rates of mental distress and the neoliberal mode of capitalism practiced in countries like Britain, the USA and Australia. In line with James’s claims, I want to argue that it is necessary to reframe the growing problem of stress (and distress) in capitalist societies. Instead of treating it as incumbent on individuals to resolve their own psychological distress, instead, that is, of accepting the vast privatization of stress that has taken place over the last thirty years, we need to ask: how has it become acceptable that so many people, and especially so many young people, are ill?”
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
“Foucault’s description of an eighteenth-century soldier is also an accurate portrait of the typical citizen of District 13. The District 13 citizen is 'something that can be made; out of a formless clay, an inapt body, the machine required can be constructed; posture is gradually corrected; a calculated constraint runs slowly through each part of the body, mastering it, making it pliable, ready at all times, turning silently into the automatism of habit.' If you enact this process on the scale of a whole society, you get a populace that literally embodies obedience.”
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