The Cambridge Companion to Foucault book pdf download

Author: Gary Gutting

About the Author: Gary Gutting is a distinguished academic philosopher and a major contributor to public discussions of philosophical questions. He has taught for many years at the University of Notre Dame, where he holds the John A. O’Brien Chair in Philosophy. He is the author of seven academic books and editor of five others, and has published over forty articles. His main areas of research are philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, and twentieth-century French philosophy. For a wider audience, he is the author of Foucault: A Very Short Introduction, a volume that has been translated into 7 languages. Since June, 2011, he has been a regular contributor to the New York Times philosophy blog, The Stone, publishing over 100 columns and interviews. Other work for the Times includes analyses of the 2012 Presidential Debates for “Campaign Stops” and essays in the Sunday Review. His recent book, What Philosophy Can Do, contains essays on politics, science, religion, education, and art that expand on his Stone columns. He has been interviewed on a number of radio and television broadcasts, including National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” (with Richard Harris on climate policy), Canadian Broadcasting Television’s “Lang & O’Leary Exchange” (gun control), Sirius Radio’s “StandUp with Peter Dominick” (gun control), Cyberstation USA (religion and politics), and Al-Jazeera English TV (with Bob Reynolds on extraterrestrial life).

The Cambridge Companion to Foucault book pdf download By Gary Gutting

For Michel Foucault, philosophy was a way of questioning the allegedly necessary truths that underpin the practices and institutions of modern society. He carried this out in a series of deeply original and strikingly controversial studies on the origins of modern medical and social scientific disciplines. These studies have raised fundamental questions about the nature of human knowledge and its relation to power structures, and have become major topics of discussion throughout the humanities and social sciences. The essays in this volume provide a comprehensive overview of Foucault’s major themes and texts, from his early work on madness through his history of sexuality. Special attention is also paid to thinkers and movements, from Kant through current feminist theory, that are particularly important for understanding his work and its impact. This revised edition contains five new essays and revisions of many others, and the extensive bibliography has been updated.

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