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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      29 September 1989
      ISBN:
      9781139172141
      9780521366199
      9780521366984
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139172141
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 324 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.451kg, 324 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Philosophy, Political Theory, Politics and International Relations, Philosophy
      Series:
      Modern European Philosophy
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    Subjects:
    History of Philosophy, Political Theory, Politics and International Relations, Philosophy
    Series:
    Modern European Philosophy
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    This book is an important introduction to the critical interpretation of the work of the major French thinker Michel Foucault. Through comprehensive and detailed analyses of such important texts as The History of Madness in the Age of Reason, The Birth of the Clinic, The Order of Things, and The Archaeology of Knowledge, Professor Gutting provides a lucid exposition of Foucault's 'archaeological' approach to the history of thought - a method for uncovering the 'unconscious' structures that set boundaries on the thinking of a given epoch. The book also casts Foucault in a new light, relating his work to two major but neglected influences: Gaston Bachelard's philosophy of science and Georges Canguilhem's history of science. This perspective yields a new and valuable understanding of science, balancing and complementing the more common view that he was primarily a social critic and theorist. An excellent guide for those first approaching Foucault's work, the book will also be a challenging interpretation and evaluation for those already familiar with his writings.

    Reviews

    "Gutting knows [Foucault's works] well. He summarizes them with clarity and precision and makes some valuable criticisms. The book is also exceptional in its treatment of the cultural context of the earlier Foucault." David Revill, The Times Literary Supplement

    "...Gary Gutting is the most likely to bring to historians of science a Foucault they will find comprehensible, if not uniformly congenial." Isis

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