Michel Foucault: Social Theory as Transgression

by Charles Lemert

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231051905
• ISBN13: 9780231051903
• Release Date: December 1982
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 169 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

getting tougher each year

At one point in my life, there seemed to be a contest among mighty thinkers to break into an intellectually elite group that included authors of books that a significant number of people might read. People are not reading those books now, but I like to pick up a cool summary sometimes to see what anyone was concerned about. There is enough information about the different approaches that Foucault has taken to see how social theory was trying to take up some slack in the kind of thinking that was going on then. There is no longer any slack because the thinking is going out the window with the brains of everyone who thought there was a possibility of figuring things out. The more I try to read this stuff, the more difficult it becomes. I tried so many times that the book seemed repetitive, but that could have been me trying to get the same idea over and over and crashing into strange notions all over again. People tire of this in ten, twenty, or thirty years, and it was lucky if anyone could sight of a thinker while he was still alive, because we won't be seeing those guys again.