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Encuadernación: Rústica.Colección: El Libro De Bolsillo - Filosofía.Las ideas y las obras de Michel Foucault sobre las dimensiones represivas de las instituciones sociales, desde el tratamiento de la locura hasta las formas cristalizadas de la sexualidad, pasando por los sistemas judiciales y penitenciarios, vienen ejerciendo sin tregua una notable influencia sobre los movimientos de opinión contemporáneos. Este volumen recoge siete conversaciones seleccionadas y prologadas por Miguel Morey, en las que Foucault (1926-1984) desempeña el papel de protagonista y que permiten una primera aproximación a su pensamiento: Un diálogo sobre el poder (donde reflexiona, con Gilles Deleuze como interlocutor, sobre las relaciones entre política y teoría), Sobre la justicia popular, A propósito del encierro penitenciario, Poderes y estrategias (en torno a los mecanismos de dominación y a la realidad del Gulag), Encierro, Psiquiatría, Prisión, Verdad y Poder y No al sexo rey.

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'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 was perceived in classical Greek culture.From the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex, as well as exercise and diet) to the role of women, The Use of Pleasure is full of extraordinary insights into the differences - and the continuities - between the Ancient, Christian and Modern worlds, showing how sex became a moral issue in the west. 'Required reading for those who cling to stereotyped ideas about our difference from the Greeks in terms of pagan license versus Christian austerity' Los Angeles Times Book Review

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El curso dictado por Michel Foucault en el Collège de France entre enero y abril de 1979, Nacimiento de la biopolítica, se inscribe en una línea de continuidad con el curso del año anterior, Seguridad, territorio, población. Después de mostrar cómo la economía política marca en el siglo XVIII el nacimiento de una nueva razón gubernamental ?gobernar menos, en interés de la eficacia máxima y en función de la naturalidad de los fenómenos a los que se enfrenta?, Foucault emprende el análisis de las formas de esa gubernamentalidad liberal. Se trata de describir la racionalidad política en cuyo marco se plantearon los problemas específicos de la vida y la población: Estudiar el liberalismo como marco general de la biopolítica.Cuáles son los rasgos específicos del arte liberal de gobernar, tal como éste se esboza en el siglo XVIII? Qué crisis de gubernamentalidad caracteriza el mundo actual y qué revisiones del gobierno liberal ha suscitado? A esta tarea de diagnóstico responde el estudio

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Encuadernación: RústicaColección: Akal universitaria,245La Historia de la locura en la época clásica efectuaba la arqueología de la línea divisoria en virtud de la cual se separa en nuestras sociedades al loco del no-loco. El relato finaliza con la medicalización de la locura a principios del siglo XIX. El curso que Michel Foucault consagra a finales de 1973 y principios de 1974 al poder psiquiátrico prosigue esta historia dando, sin embargo, un giro al proyecto: acomete la genealogía de la psiquiatría, de la forma propia de poder-saber que ella constituye. Para ello resulta imposible partir de un saber médico sobre la locura, pues éste se demuestra inoperante en la práctica. Únicamente puede darse cuenta de la producción de verdad psiquiátrica sobre la locura a partir de los dispositivos y técnicas de poder que organizan el tratamiento de los locos en el periodo que va de Pinel a Charcot. La psiquiatría no nace como consecuencia de un nuevo progreso del conocimiento sobre la lo

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Qué hacen los hombres juntos? reúne una selección de textos diversos entrevistas, reseñas, notas del pensador francés Michel Foucault sobre el despliegue de la forma de vida gay, que no es ningún caso el producto de la liberación de un deseo reprimido, como proclamaban las consignas ingenuas de la revolución sexual de la última mitad del siglo XX, sino la acuñación creativa de relaciones humanas de nuevo signo, perturbadoras para el medio social en tanto que carecen de referencias identificables. Según Michel Foucault, el modo de vida gay, en construcción en las últimas décadas, es el resultado incierto de las prácticas de libertad ejercidas por varones unidos entre sí por lazos de amistad, amor y atracción, y que constituye una de las innovaciones sociales más relevantes del presente.La noción de forma de vida me parece sumamente relevante. Por qué razón no podrían introducirse criterios diferenciadores distintos a los que determinan las clases sociales, la profesión, los niveles c

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'A fabulous journey through thirty years of political and intellectual ferment ... will reorient our reading of Foucault's major works' Didier EribonThe Essential Works of Michel Foucault offers the definitive collection of his articles, interviews and seminars from across thirty years of his extraordinary career. This first volume, Ethics, contains the summaries of Foucault's renowned courses at the Collège de France, as well as key writings and candid interviews on ethical matters: from the role of the intellectual and philosopher in society to friendship, sexuality and the care of the self and others.Edited by Paul RabinowTranslated by Robert Hurley and Others

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'Foucault leaves no reader untouched or unchanged' Edward SaidAesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault's courses, articles and interviews, focuses on the philosophy, literature and art which informed his engagement with ethics and power, including brilliant commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, Magritte, Nietzsche, Freud and Wagner. He also explores a number of avant-garde authors who challenge our traditional notions of humanism, extends his theories on power relations and looks back over the whole of his extraordinary 'critical history of thought'.Edited by James D. FaubionTranslated by Robert Hurley and Others

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'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 sex more and more, but are we more liberated? The first part of Michel Foucault's landmark account of our evolving attitudes in the west shows how the nineteenth century, far from suppressing sexuality, led to an explosion of discussion about sex as a separate sphere of life for study and examination. As a result, he argues, we are making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase of pleasure. 'A wealth of insights, original conceptualizations and provocative ideas' The Times Literary Supplement

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'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book ReviewThe grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything really changed?In his revolutionary work on control and power relations in our public institutions, Michel Foucault argues that the development of prisons, police organizations and legal hierarchies has merely changed the focus of domination from our bodies to our souls. Even schools, factories, barracks and hospitals, in which an individual's time is controlled hour by hour, are part of a disciplinary society. 'Foucault's genius is called forth into the eloquent clarity of his passions ... his best book' Washington Post

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In France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which also included Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. One of the great intellectual heroes of the twentieth century, Foucault was a man whose passion and reason were at the service of nearly every progressive cause of his time. From law and order, to mental health, to power and knowledge, he spearheaded public awareness of the dynamics that hold us all in thrall to a few powerful ideologies and interests. Arguably his finest work, Archaeology of Knowledge is a challenging but fantastically rewarding introduction to his ideas.

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'The most innovative and influential French thinker of the contemporary era' GuardianThis is the ideal introduction to one of the most significant and radical philosophers of the past century. It includes detailed excerpts from all of Foucault's major works, including Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality, as well as many of his most revealing interviews, covering subjects from madness to desire, art to the nature of truth. No other writer has made us think more about the structures of power and control in our society, both past and present.'Scarcely any philosopher working on the history of philosophy or historian working on the history of institutions, social science or sexuality can avoid confronting the challenge of Foucault's books' Michael IgnatieffEdited by Paul Rabinow

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'Who since Weber, or perhaps even Hobbes, has done as much to show why power is such a profound, elusive and treacherous presence throughout our experience?' The Times Higher EducationThe third and final volume of the Essential Works of Foucault series, Power brings together his writings on the issues that he helped make the core agenda of Western political culture: medicine, prisons, psychiatry, government and sexuality, in particular showing his concerns with human rights, discrimination and exclusion. It also includes articles and open letters published directly in response to the issues of the time, calling for reform in abortion, asylum and the death penalty. All the pieces here bring a new sense of Foucault's huge influence on the politics of personal freedom.Edited by James D. FaubionTranslated by Robert Hurley and Others

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