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Discipline & Punish
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 25, 1995
Price: $15.95
In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 25, 1995
Price: $15.95
In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul. Read more >
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The History of Sexuality
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: April 14, 1990
Price: $14.00
The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: April 14, 1990
Price: $14.00
The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history. Read more >
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The Archeology of Knowledge
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 12, 1982
Price: $10.36
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Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 12, 1982
Price: $10.36
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Madness and Civilization
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 28, 1988
Price: $14.95
Perhaps the French philosopher's masterpiece, which is concerned with an extraordinary question: What does it mean to be mad? Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 28, 1988
Price: $14.95
Perhaps the French philosopher's masterpiece, which is concerned with an extraordinary question: What does it mean to be mad? Read more >
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The Order of Things
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: March 29, 1994
Price: $15.95
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Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: March 29, 1994
Price: $15.95
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Power/Knowledge
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: November 12, 1980
Price: $15.00
Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: November 12, 1980
Price: $15.00
Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History... Read more >
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The History of Sexuality
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 14, 1990
Price: $14.95
In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality.
Throughout The Uses of Pleasure Foucault analyzes an irresistible array of ancient Greek texts on eroticism as he tries to answer... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 14, 1990
Price: $14.95
In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality.
Throughout The Uses of Pleasure Foucault analyzes an irresistible array of ancient Greek texts on eroticism as he tries to answer... Read more >
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The Foucault Reader
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 12, 1984
Price: $16.95
Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But of his many books, not one offers a satisfactory introduction to the entire complex body of... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 12, 1984
Price: $16.95
Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But of his many books, not one offers a satisfactory introduction to the entire complex body of... Read more >
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The History of Sexuality
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: November 28, 1988
Price: $15.00
The Care of the Self is the third and possibly final volume of Michel Foucault's widely acclaimed examination of "the experience of sexuality in Western society." Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: November 28, 1988
Price: $15.00
The Care of the Self is the third and possibly final volume of Michel Foucault's widely acclaimed examination of "the experience of sexuality in Western society." Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break... Read more >
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The Birth of the Clinic
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 29, 1994
Price: $14.95
In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that could be mapped. Disease became subject to new rules of classification. And doctors begin to describe phenomena that for centuries had... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 29, 1994
Price: $14.95
In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that could be mapped. Disease became subject to new rules of classification. And doctors begin to describe phenomena that for centuries had... Read more >
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Herculine Barbin
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 12, 1980
Price: $14.00
With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designated female at birth. A pious girl in a Catholic orphanage, a bewildered adolescent enchanted by the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 12, 1980
Price: $14.00
With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designated female at birth. A pious girl in a Catholic orphanage, a bewildered adolescent enchanted by the... Read more >
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The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $19.00
A book that deeply influenced the young Freud and was the inspiration for many artists, The Temptation of Saint Anthony was Flaubert’s lifelong work, thirty years in the making. Based on the story of the third-century saint who lived on an isolated mountaintop in the Egyptian desert, it is a fantastical... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $19.00
A book that deeply influenced the young Freud and was the inspiration for many artists, The Temptation of Saint Anthony was Flaubert’s lifelong work, thirty years in the making. Based on the story of the third-century saint who lived on an isolated mountaintop in the Egyptian desert, it is a fantastical... Read more >
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