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Michel Foucault and Power Today: International Multidisciplinary Studies in the History of the Present
Author(s): Alain Beaulieu (Editor), David A. Gabbard
- Publisher: Lexington Books (UK)
- Publication Date: 28 Nov. 2005
- Language: English
- Print length: 196 pages
- ISBN-10: 0739111817
- ISBN-13: 9780739111819
Book Description
Foucaults thought finds innumerable applications across the social sciences, from studies in the social aspects of the medical practices and criminal sociology to juridical and economic sciences. Owing to their philosophical ramifications, his ideas have also impacted the spheres of literary studies, ethics, political thought, and critical ontology. Few thinkers have left such an influence across such a diverse range of studies. Contributors attempt to pay homage to that diversity by presenting a multidisciplinary series of analyses dedicated to the question of power today. Drawn from a number of papers presented at an international conference entitled Michel Foucault and social Control: conducted at Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges in Montreal on May 8-10, 2004 to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Foucaults death, the essays that comprise this volume address the issue at both a theoretical level and as it pertains to specific fields of practice. In addition to paying tribute to Foucaults achievements and situating his thought within the French and larger European context from which it emerged, these essays also re-evaluate the relevance of Foucaults ideas for understanding contemporary conditions. This book is suited for a broad academic audience in the humanities and Social Sciences, especially philosophy, sociology, and cultural studies.
Editorial Reviews
Review
…this selection of papers touches on the importance of Foucault”s work for Politics, Law, Psychiatry, Health Care and The French Context….there are some good individual pieces here.
Michel Foucault”s work was an invitation to think differently and this volume”s contributors respond superbly to it in their analyses of how power needs to be thought about today. Foucault would have learned much from it. Readers will take away renewed appreciation for Foucault”s legacy and for its timeliness in understanding the twenty-first century”s dangerous challenges to each person”s care of the self. — James Bernauer, Boston College
About the Author
David Gabbard is Professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction of the College of Education, East Carolina University. Alain Beaulieu is lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, McGill University
