Foucault: The Birth of Power

by Stuart Elden

Book Overview

Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge was published in March 1969; Discipline and Punish in February 1975. Although only six years apart, the difference in tone is stark: the former is a methodological treatise, the latter a call to arms. What accounts for the radical shift in Foucault's approach? Foucault's time in Tunisia had been a political awakening for him, and he returned to a France much changed by the turmoil of 1968. He taught at...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509507264
• ISBN13: 9781509507269
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"